What is "flasks"

Usage examples of "flasks".

So Spallanzani took some large glass flasks, round bellied with tapering necks.

And he did another thing, a simple one which I almost forgot to tell you about, he made another duplicate set of stews in flasks plugged up with corks, not sealed, and after boiling these for an hour put them away beside the others.

But these words meant that every one of the flasks which had been only corked, not sealed, was alive with little animals!

Seal your soup flasks in a flame, and nothing can get into them from outside.

He rolled up his wide sleeves and plunged into work, not at a writing desk but before his laboratory bench, not with a pen, but with his flasks and seeds and miscroscopes.

Needham were right, the flasks boiled for minutes should be alive with little animals, but the ones boiled for an hour or two hours should be deserted.

And when Spallanzani boils his flasks for an hour, he hurts the elasticity of the air inside the flasks!

But how to prove this, how to seal up the flasks without driving out the air?

Once more his laboratory became a shambles of cluttered flasks and hurrying assistants and tinkling glassware and sputtering, bubbling pots of yeast soup.

Pasteur they filled up some flasks, but unlike him they used a soup of hay instead of yeast, they made a vacuum in their bottles and hastened to high Maladetta in the Pyrenees, and they kept climbing until they had got up many feet higher than Pasteur had been on Mont Blanc.

He took a great number of round-bellied flasks and filled them part full of grape juice.

Then he took ten of his swan neck flasks and ingeniously sealed straight tubes of glass into their sides, and through these straight tubes in each one he put a drop of this wash water from the ripe grapes.

Every one of these ten flasks was filled to the neck in a few days with the pink foam of a good fermentation.

At this time Koch knew little or nothing about the yeast soups and flasks of Pasteur, and the experiments he fussed with had the crude originality of the first cave man trying to make fire.

They grew this microbe in flasks of broth, and did the regular accepted thing first, shooting great quantities of this soup into an assorted menagerie of unfortunate birds and quadrupeds who had to die without the satisfaction of knowing they were martyrs.