capillary tube
Britishnoun
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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
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
Surface tension thus flattens the curved liquid surface in a capillary tube.
From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015
When the mercury reaches the capillary tube, the flame of a blow-pipe is applied; the glass is dexterously melted, the superfluous part taken away, and the tube left hermetically closed.
From A Treatise on Meteorological Instruments Explanatory of Their Scientific Principles, Method of Construction, and Practical Utility by Negretti, Henry
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