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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A bottle of strong glass, with a stopper held down by a metallic clamp, used in chemical laboratories as a pressure-boiler (which see) on a small scale. Water may, in such a vessel, be applied at a temperature of 130° C. or even more. Also called
pressure-flask .
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