pipette
IPA: paɪpˈɛt
noun
- (sciences) A small tube, often with an enlargement or bulb in the middle, and usually graduated, used for transferring or delivering measured quantities of a liquid.
verb
- To transfer or measure the volume of a liquid using a pipette.
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Examples of "pipette" in Sentences
- "This is my composition; the pipette is my clarinet".
- The interior of the pipette is connected to an electronic amplifier.
- A small glass instrument, called a pipette, comes with each machine.
- For Eppendorf's stab at the boy band, pipette-appeal genre, see the video here.
- The Drink Detective comes with three test strips and a pipette, which is like a tiny eye dropper.
- 'In a dreary, lonely lab a young female postdoc puts down her pipette to massage her aching latexed hands.
- Preparation of solutions, buffers used in electrophysiology lab and routine duties (such as pipette calibration, filling of nitrogen dewer).
- [12] The spermatozooids of certain plants can be strongly attracted towards a pipette which is filled with malic acid -- crowding around and into it with avidity.
- Snap off the remainder of the capillary tube from the broad upper portion of the pipette which is now destined to form the covering tube or air chamber, or what we may term the "barrel."
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