Erlenmeyer flask
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Named after German chemist Emil Erlenmeyer, who invented it in 1861.
Noun[edit]
Erlenmeyer flask (plural Erlenmeyer flasks)
- (chemistry) A glass laboratory flask of a conical profile with a narrow tubular neck and a flat bottom, used to manipulate solutions or carry out titrations.
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 265:
- An assistant arrived with a wheeled cart bearing coffee in an Erlenmeyer flask, cups, and a plate of strange muffins.
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Translations[edit]
conical laboratory flask
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