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Definition of Beakers
1. beaker [n] - See also: beaker
Lexicographical Neighbors of Beakers
Literary usage of Beakers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Druggist (1893)
"Now place the apparatus for holding the beakers on the upper support (the ...
The beakers are then placed in the several holes in this apparatus with their ..."
2. An Elementary Manual of Chemistry: Abridged from Eliot and Storer's Manual by William Ripley Nichols, Charles William Eliot, Frank Humphreys Storer (1880)
"beakers are thin flat-bottomed tumblers with a slightly flaring rim. ... Up to
the capacity of about a litre, beakers are to be recommended for heating ..."
3. Chemical Handicraft: A Classified and Descriptive Catalogue of Chemical by John Joseph Griffin (1877)
"Conical Precipitating beakers, of hard Bohemian glass, ... Conical Precipitating
beakers, German glass, uniform in substance, thin bottom, Fig. ..."
4. A Text-book of Human Physiology by Austin Flint (1888)
"The cavity of the taste-beakers is filled with celk, at which two kinds ...
According to the views of those who have described the so-called tute- beakers, ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"... in the ears and on the neck; ist period of Spanish conquest. Chancay, Peru.
FIG. 2. —Two Gold beakers, with human faces. ..."
6. Workshop Receipts by Ernest Spon (1906)
"The washed emulsion should now be tested for fog, which is done by taking two 3
oz, beakers, putting into one 1 oz. of developer prepared for developing a ..."
7. Early American Craftsmen by Walter Alden Dyer (1915)
"Noyes. and Cowell, the two beakers by Hurd. and the chalice by Dummer. Baptismal
basin by Kneeland (Boston. about 1735); caudle cups by Dummer and Dixwell. ..."
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