burette
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The tip of the burette is allowed to fill before the readings are made, which are from the lowest point or meniscus.
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- noun A uniform-bore glass tube with fine gradations and a stopcock at the bottom, used especially in laboratory procedures for accurate fluid dispensing and measurement.
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The tip of the burette is allowed to fill before the readings are made, which are from the lowest point or meniscus.
— Human Foods and Their Nutritive Value -
When the burette is filled with soda solution half-way up the funnel Y, A and C are closed, and B opened.
— Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise -
The accuracy of the reading of a burette is sensibly increased by the use of an Erdmann float.
— A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. -
The burette is again put hermetically on the indiarubber stopper in basin W, and the apparatus is left to cool until the water discharged through P shows the same temperature as the water flowing through (into the cooling jacket) Z.
— Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise -
When using a burette, the water must be run out; the burette is next rinsed with some of the solution to be used, and drained; and then it is filled with the solution.
— A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines.
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- French, diminutive of buire, vase for liquors, from Old French, probably of Germanic origin.
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