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capillary tube

British

noun

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

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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

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 Garnett, Thomas

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