bell jar

A cylindrical glass vessel with a rounded top and an open base, used to protect and display fragile objects or to establish a vacuum or a controlled atmosphere in scientific experiments.

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bell jar

a bell-shaped glass cover used to protect flower arrangements or fragile ornaments or to cover apparatus in experiments, esp to prevent gases escaping

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

bell′ jar`

a bell-shaped glass cover designed esp. for protecting objects or for containing gases or a vacuum in chemical experiments.

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Noun

bell jar - a bell-shaped glass cover used to protect and display delicate objects or to cover scientific apparatus or to contain gases

bell glass

protective cover, protective covering, protection - a covering that is intend to protect from damage or injury; "they had no protection from the fallout"; "wax provided protection for the floors"

Translations

bell jar

n → (Glas)glocke f

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

bell jar

n → campana di vetro

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

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I'd love to play the main character, Esther Greenwood, in a British adaptation of The Bell Jar.

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Each bell jar is attached to a diaphragm pump providing a continual and equal draw of air through each bell jar - one set up to "smoke" tobacco cigarettes, another to "vape" e-cigarettes and the third used as the control with only air drawn through it.

Dramatic video reveals shocking effects of smoking compared with vaping; You might want to rethink your habits after stark results are revealed in an experiment

Each bell jar is attached to a diaphragm pump providing a continual and equal draw of air through each bell jar - one set up to"smoke" tobacco cigarettes, another to "vape" e-cigarettes and the third used as the control with only air drawn through it.

The shocking effects of smoking compared with vaping e-cigarettes revealed; If you've ever wondered what smoking really does your body, then you need to see this

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The group-written Under the Fig Tree explores themes of Sylvia Plath's 'The Bell Jar.'.

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From the Jack Dee-winning opening run in 2001, through the notorious Shilpa Shetty affair in 2007, it was a rollercoaster ride of fun and TONIGHT Sylvia Plath: Inside the Bell Jar BBC Two, 9pm It's 55 years since Sylvia Plath's only novel, The Bell Jar, was published in the UK, just a month before she committed suicide.

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