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Erlenmeyer flask

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A glass laboratory flask of a conical profile with a narrow tubular neck and a flat bottom, used to manipulate solutions or carry out titrations.

    "An assistant arrived with a wheeled cart bearing coffee in an Erlenmeyer flask, cups, and a plate of strange muffins."

  2. 2
    a conical flask with a wide base and narrow neck wordnet

Etymology

Named after German chemist Emil Erlenmeyer, who invented it in 1861.

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