Word Finder - flasks

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A narrow-necked vessel of metal or glass, used for various purposes; as of sheet metal, to carry gunpowder in; or of wrought iron, to contain quicksilver; or of glass, to heat water in, etc.

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A container used to discreetly carry a small amount of a hard alcoholic beverage; a pocket flask.

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Laboratory glassware used to hold larger volumes than test tubes, normally having a narrow mouth of a standard size which widens to a flat or spherical base.

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A container for holding a casting mold, especially for sand casting molds.

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A bed in a gun carriage.

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To invest a denture in a flask so as to produce a sectional mold.

A volume of the diluted yeast was introduced into flasks containing sterilized wort, the degree of dilution being such that only a small proportion of the flasks became infected.

The flasks were then well shaken, and the yeast cell or cells settled to the bottom, and gave rise to a separate yeast speck.

The contents of the flasks can then be introduced into larger flasks, and finally into an apparatus suitable for making enough yeast for technical purposes.

In the breeding season the male deposits drops of sperm on a sheet of webbing, picks it up in these flasks by means of capillary attraction and carries it about until he falls in with a female.

The enamelled Saracenic glasses take the form of flasks, vases, goblets, beakers and mosque lamps.

To the second century, lastly, belongs in part the evidence of the catacombs, on the walls of which are depicted persons reclining at tables supporting a fish, accompanied by one or more baskets of loaves, and more rarely by flasks of wine or water.

From 1850 to 1908 California produced a total of 2,052,000 flasks of metal, of 76.5 lb (since June I, 1904, 750 lb net) each.

The year of greatest yield was 1877, with 79,395 flasks.

In the XIIth Dynasty a hard thin drab ware was common, like the modern qulleh water flasks.

The media are used either in a fluid or solid condition, the latter being obtained by a process of coagulation, or by the addition of a gelatinizing agent, and are placed in glass tubes or flasks plugged with cotton-wool.

The media from the store-flasks are placed in glass test-tubes or small flasks, protected from contamination by cotton-wool plugs, and are sterilized by heat.

The chemistry equipment found in the pit included numerous crucibles, as well as flasks and possible acid bottles.

Dewar (flask)ce plugs may form in the neck of open dewar flasks and cause a build-up of pressure.

Glass domestic vacuum flasks must not be used for liquid nitrogen.

The second experiment is the same as the first but with two 100 ml flasks.

The irradiated fuel was carried in steel flasks on the vehicle deck of the ferry alongside passenger cars.

He used flasks of different species of the protozoan paramecium, which eats bacteria.

A number of flasks containing a nutrient medium were each inoculated with one drop of this mixture; it was found that some remained sterile, and Lister assumed that the remaining flasks each contained a pure culture.

The growth of the marked cells is kept under observation for three or four days, by which time the colonies will be large enough to be taken out of the chamber and placed in flasks.

In celebration of such memories, give one of a wide variety of engraved beer steins, bottle openers, stainless steel flasks and shot glasses.

The "award-winning" pots for the Amazonia Preciosa face products are 100 percent biodegradable flasks with no chemical ingredients in their composition, and once discarded degrade naturally in eight months.