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Lab dispenser
Answer for the clue "Lab dispenser ", 7 letters:
pipette
Alternative clues for the word pipette
- Measuring instrument consisting of a graduated glass tube used to measure or transfer precise volumes of a liquid by drawing the liquid up into the tube
- Tube for liquid in mine covering domestic source of electricity
- Tube ending in passage alongside canary, say, in mine
- Chemist's measurer
- Eyedropper, essentially
- Narrow tube in chemistry
- Tube in a lab
Word definitions for pipette in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pipette \Pi*pette"\, n. [F., dim. of pipe.] A small glass tube, often with an enlargement or bulb in the middle, and usually graduated, -- used for transferring or delivering measured quantities.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ VERB use ▪ We even use pipettes: so unhygienic. ▪ Ensure that the adhesion is successful by using the pipette to pass streams of buffer over the attached cells. ▪ Thoroughly mix using a Pasteur pipette . EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also pipet , 1818, from French pipette , from Middle French pipette "tube," diminutive of Old French pipe , from Vulgar Latin *pipa (see pipe (n.1)).
Usage examples of pipette.
Glass jars, slender glass tubes called pipettes, racks of glass slides and covers, bottles of hematoxylin and eosin dyes, and plastic baskets containing thousands of Eppendorf tubes, from 0.
Lars recognized the ultracentrifuge blocked in against the bulkhead, saw the tiers of incubators, the agitators and water-baths, the cartons of pipettes and reagents still unopened, but secured tightly for blastoff.
Glass jars, slender glass tubes called pipettes, racks of glass slides and covers, bottles of hematoxylin and eosin dyes, and plastic baskets containing thousands of Eppendorf tubes, from 0.
For a while, Penn Brown concentrates on using his pipette to spot microliter droplets into the wells.
By then your father had been pipetted out and installed in an incubation tank.
Jeff, usually one of loudest talkers, was quietly pipetting samples into petri dishes.
Inside the labs, Humans wearing white overalls over their clean-suits wielded pipettes and needles over glass eggs of culture media, filter dishes of layered ceramics, and even old-fashioned microscopes they must have appropriated from the larger hospital.
Spare test tubes, beakers, and pipettes were stacked neatly in open shelves above the counters, while a shining steel stool gave Kaur someplace to rest her legs while she inspected the embryos.
It has also been reported that Martians drink blood, and that they used pipettes about a yard long to do so.
From other accounts, one might suppose that such pipettes were metallic things that the Martians kept lying about near their vehicles, but this is not so.
I stirred with black pipettes, and I forgot from moment to moment what it was I had been looking for.
These are bunsen burners, this is a test-tube, this is a pipette, that's a burette, that is a retort, a crucible .
Glass is used extensively in the bottles, graduated cylinders, beakers, flasks, pipettes, condensers, test tubes, watch glasses, burets, funnels, crucibles, and retorts of modern chemical laboratories.
He remembered chemistry lab in college, where he'd been required to fashion pipettes using a Bunsen burner and glass rods.
When I walked in, he was making a permanent slide, using a pipette to touch a drop of Cargille melt mount on the edge of a cover slip while other slides warned up on a hot plate.