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.

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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; bower ¹ ) + -ette -ette

Example Sentences

Mercury is run in from a burette through the side-neck and applies pressure upon the film by gravity.

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A standardized solution of ammonium molybdate is then added from a burette.

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After having boiled for 3 to 4 minutes, N/4 caustic soda is added until the pink color just returns and the amount of caustic soda used is read on the burette.

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The alkalimeter is merely a graduated tube—a burette—with a stopcock at the lower extremity, from which the standard acid is dropped into water in which a known weight of the substance is dissolved.

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A burette may be calibrated by filling it with distilled water, drawing off portions, say of 5 c.c. in succession, into a weighing bottle of known weight, and weighing them.

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