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battery jar

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noun

  1. a rather large cylindrical container of heavy glass with an open top, used in laboratories.


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This sediment consists of active material or lead sulphate which has dropped from the positive plate and fallen to the bottom of the battery jar.

From The Automobile Storage Battery Its Care And Repair by Otto A. Witte

By placing crystals of blue vitriol in the battery jar, the solution of blue vitriol can be kept up to its full strength for a very long time.

From The Story of Great Inventions by Elmer Ellsworth Burns

A battery jar or a small water-bath to hold the Erlenmeyer flask when packed round with ice.

From The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged. by J. W. H. (John William Henry) Eyre

This should be thoroughly mixed by pouring the solution from one battery jar into another.

From The Automobile Storage Battery Its Care And Repair by Otto A. Witte

The cake of unchanged zinc dust and zinc compounds is transferred to a 3-l. battery jar and placed under the stirrer, and the latter is clamped in place.

From Organic Syntheses by James Bryant Conant

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