capillary tube
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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But they lived when Dr. Snir whisked the fluid away with a capillary tube.
From New York Times ● Nov. 30, 2022
Water rises in a glass capillary tube to a height of 17 cm.
From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019
At the end of Beam Line 12, a scientist named Helen He showed off the object being scrutinized: a crystal inside a capillary tube, almost too small to see with the naked eye.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 17, 2017
One important phenomenon related to the relative strength of cohesive and adhesive forces is capillary action—the tendency of a fluid to be raised or suppressed in a narrow tube, or capillary tube.
From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015
There is likewise another curious instance of the production of sound, when a tube is held over a stream of inflamed hydrogen gas issuing out of a capillary tube in a bottle.
From Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease by Thomas Garnett
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