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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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.
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.
When, however, a pipette or burette has to be calibrated to deliver a certain volume of water, the final calibration must be made with this liquid.
From A Handbook of Laboratory Glass-Blowing by Bolas, Bernard D.
Run in from a burette decinormal sodic hydrate, to a faint pink color.
From The Starvation Treatment of Diabetes by Hill, Lewis Webb
A standardized solution of ammonium molybdate is then added from a burette.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" by Various
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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