burette

American  

[byoo-ret] / bjʊˈrɛt /

Or buret

noun

Chemistry.

1. a graduated glass tube, commonly having a stopcock at the bottom, used for accurately measuring or measuring out small quantities of liquid.

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burette British  

/ bjʊˈrɛt /

noun

1. a graduated glass tube with a stopcock on one end for dispensing and transferring known volumes of fluids, esp liquids

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burette Scientific  

/ by-rĕt′ /

1. A graduated glass tube having a tapered bottom with a valve. It is used especially in laboratories to pour a measured amount of liquid from one container into another.

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Etymology

Origin of burette

1475–85; < French: cruet, burette ( Old French biurete ), equivalent to buire ewer, flagon (perhaps < Frankish *būrja receptacle, akin to Germanic *būr- hut; see bower ¹) + -ette -ette

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Example Sentences

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burette

From the reading of the burette the lead is calculated.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" by Various

A convenient plan for filling a burette from below is shown in fig.

From A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. by Cornelius Beringer

The accuracy of the reading of a burette is sensibly increased by the use of an Erdmann float.

From A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. by Cornelius Beringer

Fill an ordinary 100 c.c. burette with the solution of barium chloride.

From A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. by Cornelius Beringer

Run in from a burette decinormal sodic hydrate, to a faint pink color.

From The Starvation Treatment of Diabetes by Lewis Webb Hill

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