Pyrex

[ pahy-reks ]

/ ˈpaɪ rɛks /

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Trademark.

a brand name for any of a class of heat- and chemical-resistant glassware products of varying composition used for cooking.

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Words nearby Pyrex

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How to use Pyrex in a sentence

Pyrex offered the first temperature-resistant glassware to consumers more than 100 years ago.
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From 1956 to 1983, Pyrex produced 170 distinct patterns with fanciful names like Golden Honeysuckle, Lucky in Love, and Pineapple Party.
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With the introduction of Pyrex, home cooks could now prep, cook, serve, and store their favorite dishes all in the same bowl.
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Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, Pyrex continued to produce new colors and patterns for its glass at an impressive clip.
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Those initial colors were selected by Lilla Cortright, head of the Pyrex test kitchen.
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Season the venison with salt and pepper and put it into a nonreactive bowl such as a Pyrex dish.
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To cleanse our palettes, we sniffed chopped watermelon, cucumber and canned corn held in Pyrex containers throughout the lab.
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Break out the Pyrex—the casserole, America's classic hard-times dish, is hot again.
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It has been found that it imparts a violet red tint to the pyrex tubing after the latter has been used for a few combustions.
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Butter a square Pyrex pan and put in the graham-cracker dust to make,a crust.
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Over the whole pour some melted butter, cover the casserole, (or pyrex plate) and put it in the oven with a low fire.
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The two bounders stood there, encased in heat-resistant pyrex pants, expecting the natives to make things hot for them.
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British Dictionary definitions for Pyrex

Pyrex

/ (ˈpaɪrɛks) /

noun

trademark

any of a variety of borosilicate glasses that have low coefficients of expansion, making them suitable for heat-resistant glassware used in cookery and chemical apparatus
(as modifier)a Pyrex dish

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