fume cupboard
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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The lab has spent car battery cells and, in the fume cupboard, their pulverised contents.
From Science Daily • Oct. 17, 2023
According to Mr Van Dam, it's a substance best handled in a laboratory fume cupboard.
From BBC • Aug. 11, 2016
Fairfax County school guidelines instruct those handling chemicals in a classroom environment to “work in a fume cupboard or under a hood, or use local exhaust.”
From Washington Post • Nov. 2, 2015
The assistant takes the flasks in batches of four or five at a time to the fume cupboard, where he adds a measured quantity of acid.
From A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. by Beringer, Cornelius
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