bell-jar

Soon enough I'll have to go home and be plagued by the laundry pile and the parking ticket and what to make for dinner, stuck in a bell-jar of non-mystery boredom/reality with a husband who thinks crime fic is tiresome dreck -- an annoying "hobby" I tend to natter on about.

Conventional Behaviour 2008

  "Put the bell-jar on the shelf," the Time Broker bellowed.

The Time Broker 2010

The project done, he turns to place in his great bell-jar trophy case his foe's defeated, fallen son

APED: "trophy case" hradzka 2009

Big Bad Boomin Bugs is a $18 science toy that provides a panopticon through which you can minutely observe your captured insect specimens: a magnifying bell-jar with sensitive amplifiers that magnify the insects 'sounds, too:

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The transparent case and lenses give it a nice steampunky feel, like it's something under a bell-jar in a mad scientist's lab.

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Amory Lovins writes: “I once met an economist who believed that everything was fungible for money, so I suggested he enclose himself in a large bell-jar with as much money as he wanted and see how long he lasted.”

The Eco-Man's Library: Nonfiction Spangler, Adam 2008

Businesses that had flourished by selling to captive consumers in bell-jar economies folded.

The Sexiest Companies You've Never Heard Of 2007

There was a tinkling sound, as fragments of the broken test tube, the bell-jar and other things began falling about the room.

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The upper half of a thin Leyden jar charged is brought into the bell-jar, and held there four or five seconds; it is then found entirely discharged.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 275, April 9, 1881 Various

Over a flame is heated some water in a glass jar, through the stopper of which passes a bent tube to bell-jar (held obliquely), which thus gets filled with aqueous vapor.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 275, April 9, 1881 Various