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Synonyms for burette

Grammar : Noun
Spell : byoo-ret
Phonetic Transcription : byʊˈrɛt

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Définition of burette

Origin :
  • 1836, from French burette "small vase, cruet," diminutive of buire "vase for liquors," in Old French "jug," variant of buie (12c.) "bottle, water jog," from Frankish *buk- or some similar Germanic source (see bucket (n.)). As a laboratory measuring tube, from 1836.
  • As in jar : noun container
Example sentences :
  • The amount of alkali that has been used can be determined from the burette.
  • Extract from : « The Book of Cheese » by Charles Thom and Walter Warner Fisk
  • And subsequently when the burette is used, the volumes read from the scale on the burette must be corrected.
  • Extract from : « The Methods of Glass Blowing and of Working Silica in the Oxy-Gas Flame » by W. A. Shenstone
  • Burette, bÅ«-ret′, n. a flask-shaped vessel for holding liquids, an altar-cruet.
  • Extract from : « Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) » by Various
  • A single drop is let fall from a burette or glass rod held steadily above the water, upon the centre of the surface.
  • Extract from : « Cooley's Practical Receipts, Volume II » by Arnold Cooley
  • While the water is flowing through b, the burette becomes filled with gas.
  • Extract from : « Scientific American Supplement No. 360, November 25, 1882 » by Various
  • The water is allowed to rise into the burette as far as the cock, and the cocks, b and b¹, are afterward closed.
  • Extract from : « Scientific American Supplement No. 360, November 25, 1882 » by Various
  • From a burette, quarter normal (N/4) sulfuric acid is added until the pink color is just discharged.
  • Extract from : « Soap-Making Manual » by E. G. Thomssen
  • If a fifth normal caustic solution is used, the reading on the burette gives the percentage of free fatty acid directly.
  • Extract from : « Soap-Making Manual » by E. G. Thomssen
  • Fill a burette with the solution of soda, and cautiously drop this into 63 gr.
  • Extract from : « Cooley's Practical Receipts, Volume II » by Arnold Cooley
  • Run in from a burette decinormal sodic hydrate, to a faint pink color.
  • Extract from : « The Starvation Treatment of Diabetes » by Lewis Webb Hill
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