lab coat
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Throw on a lab coat, spark a Bunsen burner, and stay close to the eyewash station, but hopefully it won’t come to that.
From Barron's ● Dec. 26, 2025
Varied scenes — a suburban home, a doctor in white lab coat — flash by.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 7, 2024
Numerous studies have found that students—even those from non-Western cultures—view scientists as white, male, and wearing a white lab coat, while holding chemistry glassware such as beakers or flasks.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 8, 2023
Upon further investigation, Ms. Harper encountered a woman in a lab coat and two others wearing plastic gloves and blue surgical masks packing pregnancy tests for shipping.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 23, 2023
Salk looks exactly the way you’d imagine a scientist: glasses, white lab coat, holding test tubes.
From "The Fourteenth Goldfish" by Jennifer L. Holm
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