test-tubes

In effect, by lining up the test-tubes, he could make the dancing flies form a sort of living graph of solubility versus activity.

Connecting the Pieces of the Alzheimer's Puzzle Matt Ridley 2011

Johnny Hall, for instance, was a fellow addict on his first appearance in Bad News, another languid spectator of his own destruction: "I've been shooting some really disreputable speed… the kind that smells of burnt test-tubes when you push the plunger down…" In Some Hope he was far enough from the brink to be able to hear Patrick's confession, and by the time of Mother's Milk he had become a child psychologist.

At Last by Edward St Aubyn – review 2011

Professor Hilton paused and glared at him, unsympathetic and unimaginative as one of his own test-tubes.

Chapter 10 2010

With quick, nervous movements among his array of test-tubes, he turned a white solution to a wine color, and a light yellow solution to a dark brown.

Moon Face:The Shadow and the Flash 2010

And the fingers, which were more used to test-tubes and water colors, doubled into a hard fist which smote the mug-thrower cleanly on the point of the jaw.

CHAPTER 11 2010

A formidable array of bottles and test-tubes, with the pungent cleanly smell of hydro - chloric acid, told me that he had spent his day in the chemical work which was so dear to him.

Sole Music 2010

The Professor opened it now, and I glimpsed but the usual array of bottles and test-tubes and vials.

Archive 2010-06-01 Johnny Pez 2010

The Professor opened it now, and I glimpsed but the usual array of bottles and test-tubes and vials.

"He Who Shrank" by Henry Hasse, part 1 Johnny Pez 2010

You'd think Darwin created the world all by himself with a few test-tubes, the amount of attention he's getting.

Darwin teaches us the humility of the agnostic 2009

You'd think Darwin created the world all by himself with a few test-tubes, the amount of attention he's getting.

Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me 2009