burette
Americannoun
noun
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
Example Sentences
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It is best contained in a pint flask, and the standard chromate solution used with an ordinary burette.
From A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. by Beringer, Cornelius
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
Tint with methyl orange, and run in from an ordinary burette normal solution of sulphuric acid until a pink tint is got.
From A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. by Beringer, Cornelius
The best plan is to hold a piece of white paper behind the burette, and to read from the lower edge of the black line that will be seen.
From The Methods of Glass Blowing and of Working Silica in the Oxy-Gas Flame For the use of chemical and physical students by Shenstone, W. A.
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
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