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capillary tube

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noun

  1. a glass tube with a fine bore and thick walls, used in thermometers, etc

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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

What is the diameter of the capillary tube?

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

Capillary action is the tendency of a fluid to be raised or suppressed in a narrow tube, or capillary tube which is due to the relative strength of cohesive and adhesive forces.

From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015

Capillary attraction or repulsion is the cause which determines the ascent or descent of a fluid in a capillary tube.

From The Chemical History of a Candle by Sir William Crookes

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