burette
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of burette
1475–85; < French: cruet, burette ( Old French biurete ), equivalent to buire ewer, flagon (perhaps < Frankish *būrja receptacle, akin to Germanic *būr- hut; see bower 1) + -ette -ette
Example Sentences
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The burette is connected by a rubber tube and a Y-piece, either with another burette or with a piece of ordinary combustion-tube of about the same size.
From A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. by Beringer, Cornelius
On running the solution from the burette into the assay, do not let it run down the side of the flask.
From A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. by Beringer, Cornelius
The bottle containing the standard solution is connected with the burette by a syphon arrangement through the glass tube and T-piece.
From A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. by Beringer, Cornelius
The accuracy of the reading of a burette is sensibly increased by the use of an Erdmann float.
From A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. by Beringer, Cornelius
Run in from a burette decinormal sodic hydrate, to a faint pink color.
From The Starvation Treatment of Diabetes by Hill, Lewis Webb
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