graduated cylinder

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Noun1.Graduated cylinder - a cylindrical graduategraduated cylinder - a cylindrical graduate    
graduate - a measuring instrument for measuring fluid volume; a glass container (cup or cylinder or flask) whose sides are marked with or divided into amounts
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Materials: sugar * water * measuring cups * bowl * spoon * pie or cake tin * graduated cylinder * ruler * drinking straw * paper and pencil
I was attending the closing party for the Green Market Summit in Chicago, when a colleague handed me a translucent tube that looked like the hybrid between a flux capacitor and a graduated cylinder from high school chem class.
Each run consisted of supplying a fixed water level at the reservoir side of the physical model to achieve a constant head of water H=150mm and at the opposite side the resulting water due to seepage is accumulated by graduated cylinder. Two horizontal locations of cavity measured from sheet pile are selected X=100mm and 200mm to show the effect of doubling the distance horizontally on the seepage criteria.
For the determination of the volumes through WDM, each fruit was placed in a graduated cylinder (200 mL) containing a known volume of water (initial volume).
Why was the thermometer smarter than the graduated cylinder?
To determine whether the paint has a tendency to foam or trap air (mainly waterbornes), stir it, shake it, or put it in a blender, then pour it into a graduated cylinder and see if the bubbles dissipate rapidly, slowly, or not at all.
The graduated cylinder full of white wine early in the fermentation process contains a hydrometer to measure the density of the liquid and thus its sugar content.
The standard rain gauge, developed around the start of the 20th century, consists of a funnel attached to a graduated cylinder (2 cm in diameter) that fits inside a larger outside container (20 cm in diameter and 50 cm tall).
Q How accurate is it to measure a 24-hour urine specimen by the volume markings on the collection jug as opposed to measuring with a IL or 2L graduated cylinder? We have always used a graduated cylinder, but some local hospitals use the jug markings.
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