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Erlenmeyer flask

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Er·len·mey·er flask  (ûrln-mr, âr-)
n.
A conical laboratory flask with a narrow neck and flat broad bottom.

[After Richard August Carl Emil Erlenmeyer (1825-1909), German chemist.]

Erlenmeyer flask [ˈɜːlənˌmaɪə]
n
(Chemistry) a flask, for use in a laboratory, with a narrow neck, wide base, and conical shape; conical flask
[named after Emil Erlenmeyer (1825-1909), German chemist]
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Noun1.Erlenmeyer flaskErlenmeyer flask - a conical flask with a wide base and narrow neck
flask - bottle that has a narrow neck


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As students answered questions on everything from entropy to Erlenmeyer flasks, black holes to buckyball molecules, more than 300 people watching sat on the edge of their seats, groaning when a team member got a question wrong, gasping when they got a difficult one right, and erupting into cheers when rounds ended.
He said that to suppress cancer growth in experimental animals high-antioxidant green tea leaves are extracted with deionized hot water shielded from atmospheric oxygen in an Erlenmeyer flask.
 
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