Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A conical laboratory flask with a narrow neck and flat broad bottom.
Wiktionary
- n. A glass laboratory flask of a conical profile with a narrow tubular neck and a flat bottom, used to manipulate solutions, or to carry out titrations.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. a thin glass flask, flat-bottomed and cone-shaped to allow of safely shaking its contents laterally without danger of spilling; -- so called from Erlenmeyer, a German chemist who invented it.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a conical flask with a wide base and narrow neck
Etymologies
- After Richard August Carl Emil Erlenmeyer (1825-1909), German chemist.
Examples
“On my stainless-steel table I’d gathered a 5-liter Erlenmeyer flask and some glass tubing I found on eBay, a single-coil electric burner I bought at Kmart, and a heat-diffuser gadget of the type long loved by grandmas simmering soups.”
“I began to think about how thin the glass of the Erlenmeyer flask was, and how it must be releasing heat.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘Erlenmeyer flask’.
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In The Laboratory
List of laboratory glassware and apparatuses, machines, tools, etc., starting with burette.
Please feel free to help me populate this list, all you mad scientist Wordniks.burette, reagent bottle, Erlenmeyer flask, pipette, centrifuge, ultracentrifuge, beaker, spot plate, crucible, flask, mortar, pestle and 113 more...
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Containers
Stuff that holds other stuff.
cardboard box, jar, filing cabinet, safe deposit box, cupboard, wardrobe, jewel case, briefcase, locker, canopic jar, chest of drawers, paper sack and 203 more...
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See, The Eyes Have It
List of words (or phrases) containing eye-, -eye-, or -eye. Beginning with red-eye and eyebright.
red-eye, eyebright, arguw-eye, bigeye, bird's-eye, buckeye, blarneyed, wheyey, eyebrow, eyecup, eyedropper, eyeful and 282 more...
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