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n. (context chemistry English) A large fume hood built into the wall of a laboratory; also provides some protection from explosion.
Usage examples of "fume cupboard".
He jumped up, ran into the fume cupboard and closed the door, trembling.
He slammed the sliding door of the fume cupboard down, sealing the still burning chemical inside.
Shutting the safety door of the fume cupboard and letting the splint burn rather than try to pick it up again had been the right thing to do.
He quickly released the marmoset from its fume cupboard and pushed the bushy-tailed mammal through one of the windows.
The condenser burbled in the makeshift fume cupboard I'd built in the bathroom and the gene-spinners clicked intermittently as I soaked up Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, Leonid Brezhnev.