Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. 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.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A vessel for containing liquids, usually pear-shaped or flask-shaped, with or without a handle; specifically, in English, an altar-cruet having this form. Burettes are made of rich materials, such as rock-crystal, precious metals, etc., or of porcelain or faience, often highly decorated.
- n. In chem., a tube, usually graduated to fractions of a centimeter, used for accurately measuring out small quantities of a solution.
Wiktionary
- n. A glass tube with fine gradations and a stopcock at the bottom, used in laboratory procedures for accurate fluid dispensing and titration.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. An apparatus for delivering measured quantities of liquid or for measuring the quantity of liquid or gas received or discharged. It consists essentially of a graduated glass tube, usually furnished with a small aperture and stopcock.
WordNet 3.0
- n. measuring instrument consisting of a graduated glass tube with a tap at the bottom; used for titration
Etymologies
- French, diminutive of buire, vase for liquors, from Old French, probably of Germanic origin.
Examples
“He caught some in a burette and tried several chemicals on it.”
“Working in ICU without an IV pump, dropping meds into a burette and counting drops to give the med over an hour.”
“Fill the burette of the acidimeter with the solution of NaOH and begin to titrate the milk in the flask.”
“To the medium in the beaker run in n/10 NaOH cautiously from the burette until the end-point is reached, as indicated by the development of a pinkish tinge, shown in figure 98 (b).”
“This may be done by first leading it over H_ {2} SO_ {4} and soda lime, or soda lime alone, by some such arrangement as is shown in figure 99, which also shows a constant burette arrangement for the delivery of small measured quantities of the dekanormal soda solution.”
“It is composed of three parts, all made of glass; the mixing bottle, Fig. 34; the Pipette, Fig. 35; and the burette, Fig 36.”
The Cultivation of The Native Grape, and Manufacture of American Wines
“After thus fixing the precise point of the saturation of the acids, the burette is held upright, and the quantity of the solution of ammonia consumed is accurately determined, -- that is, to what line on the scale the burette has been emptied.”
The Cultivation of The Native Grape, and Manufacture of American Wines
“-- The capacity of a flour to absorb water is determined by adding water from a burette to a weighed amount of flour until a dough of standard consistency is obtained.”
“In the experiments where a burette is used for measuring reagents, the burette is first filled with the reagent by means of a funnel.”
“Weigh out 15 gms. of soft wheat flour into an evaporating dish; then add from burette a measured quantity of water sufficient to make a stiff dough.”
Lists
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