Erlenmeyer flask

English

An Erlenmeyer flask.

Etymology

Named after German chemist Emil Erlenmeyer, who invented it in 1861.

Noun

Erlenmeyer flask (plural Erlenmeyer flasks)

1. (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 2007, p. 265:

     An assistant arrived with a wheeled cart bearing coffee in an Erlenmeyer flask, cups, and a plate of strange muffins.

Synonyms

• conical flask

Translations

conical laboratory flask

• Danish: erlenmeyerkolbe c, konisk kolbe c
• Finnish: erlenmeyerkolvi
• French: erlenmeyer (fr)
• German: Erlenmeyerkolben m
• Hungarian: Erlenmeyer-lombik
• Italian: beuta (it) f, matraccio di Erlenmeyer m
• Malay: kelalang kon
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• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: erlenmeyerkolbe m

  Nynorsk: erlenmeyerkolbe m

• Russian: ко́лба Э́рленме́йера f (kólba Érlenméjera), кони́ческая ко́лба f (koníčeskaja kólba)
• Swedish: E-kolv c, Erlenmeyerkolv c