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burette

American  
[byoo-ret] / byʊˈrɛt /
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.

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.

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

From The Starvation Treatment of Diabetes by Hill, Lewis Webb

The flow of liquid into the burette is controlled by the clip.

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

When the action has finished bring the liquid in the two vessels to the same level and read off the burette.

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

The burette is connected by a rubber tube and a Y-piece, either with another burette or with a piece of ordinary combustion-tube of about the same size.

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

The permanganate of potassium solution is then run in from a stop-cock burette in the usual way until a faint pink tinge is obtained.

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

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