How To Use Beaker In A Sentence

When it was their turn to be served, the pharmacist gave them each a plastic beaker filled with liquid, which they greedily consumed.
At the bar a leather-clad schoolboy was buying a pint of lager, served in a plastic beaker.
Vassili roared in Fon and the daughter came in with a beaker of thin yoghurt which he poured down Selina's throat. BLOOD IS DIRT
I carefully lifted the tiny beaker to Ash's mouth and poured it in, then covering his mouth and nose, forcing him to halfheartedly swallow it.
I'd anticipated him working inside a Back-To-The-Future kind of laboratory with bubbling beakers, coiled yellow electrical wire, and a suffocating sense of disarray.

The beaker was so greasy and filthy that I could not help turning round to the messman and saying, ‘Fellow, get me a glass!’ The Memoires of Barry Lyndon
They are plunged in a solution of ammonium chloride A, contained in a glass phial or beaker, which is closed to suppress evaporation. The Story of Electricity
Bath toys - a few cups or beakers for demonstrating how to pour will liven up bathtime.
At 8: 00 Ember sat down at a cold desk in the back of a bright room full of chemicals and beakers.
In the traditional chrono-topological sequence, short-necked forms follow the bell beakers, with the long-necked forms following still later.
All Morris has done is to give these unpersons an opportunity to demonstrate the fact that they'll do anything to get a chauffeured car, a Styrofoam beaker of tea and five minutes in the green room goofing out with others of their ilk.
He also worked on virtually every form of vessel, large and small, from salts and cruets to beakers to candelabra, and from tureens to rose water sprinklers.
He pulled down a clear bottle filled with a crystal clear liquid and poured it into a glass beaker while, at the same time, he poured a light blue bottle into the same jar.
The beaker in front of the first pitcher is a prize example of Anthony Rasch's New Orleans work, about 1825 to 1835.
The next morning, the salt had apparently vanished, but, of course, when Svetaketu sipped the water he found that the salt permeated the whole beakerful of liquid, even though it could not be seen. Buddha
They included a pair of gold earrings, three copper knives, five beakers, two sets of flint tools, two stone archer's wristguards and a number of arrowheads.
The imitations imply knowledge of imported origins and, in fact, the Divari tombs did contain Augustan-period beakers of Italian thin-walled ware.
Luckily for Clyde, the beaker had shattered between his sweatshirt and his scrub top. DO NO HARM
These items included decanters, beakers, essence-bottles, cruets, wash-hand bowls, sweetmeat saucers, epergnes, vases, lemonade cups, ‘gugglets’, and ‘four elegant cut candlesticks enamel'd mosaik work very rich’.
Descent with modification led to this--a clam in a beaker with a strip of elodea, me with a laser pointer and a sometimes functioning SMART Board. Mr. Clam goes to BHS
A clock ticked, the undrinkable coffee went cold in the plastic beaker.
However, the rate of increase may finally be beginning to ease, as the beaker is almost full. An Ancient Time Frame
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There were many more items - including beakers, boars' tusks, an antler spatula for working flints, another copper knife and more flints - these would have been tools, some in mint condition.
Its taste was foul, but it was cheap, and just a beakerful or two sufficed to ravage the drinker's brain to zombiedom. Hooting Yard
Instead of getting a smooth emulsion, what they have got is a beaker full of clearly separated layers of immiscible liquid.
On the various shelves were set items of laboratory equipment: retorts, beakers, distilling tubes and burners.
The beakers pictured are a limited edition, made from silver and 18-carat gold.
When he would quench his thirst, he disdains to apply the earth-born beaker to his lips, but lets the water fall into his solemn swallow from on high, -- a pleasant feat to see, and one which, like a whirling dervis, diverts you by its agility, while it impresses you by its devotion. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858
And because there's also a ban on juice cartons and glass bottles, children bring drinks to school in reusable beakers ever day.
• If you happen to have some nitric acid and are a very careful person, you can drop your coin into a beakerful. Undefined
~ When the beaker was empty, Nurse removed all the pillows but one, drew the window curtains and left her patient to go to sleep. ADRIENNE AND THE CHALET SCHOOL
Kent urged Adam as he prepared the hypo gun filling the beaker to the brim with his special containment serum.
In the midst of the Anglo-Saxon burials were two crouched Bronze Age burials, both adults, associated with sherds of Beaker pottery and a small bronze awl probably dating from about 2000 BC.
The result was that we all kept making surreptitious trips to the staff room to refill our plastic beakers.
The Greek name alludes to the popular belief that the amethyst was a preventive of intoxication; hence beakers were made of amethyst for carousals, and inveterate drinkers wore amulets made of it to counteract the action of wine. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
Root tips were cut, placed in a beaker filled with ice water, and transferred to the laboratory.
As the sun went down, the pillared forest aisles stretching westward filled first with golden haze, then glowed with a light redder than Phthiotan wine poured from the burning beaker of the sun; and only the mournful cooing of doves broke the solemn silence as the pine organ whispered its low coranach for the dead day; and the cool shadow of coming night crept, purple-mantled, velvet-sandaled, down the forest glades. St. Elmo. A Novel.
The sides of beakers were shielded against light with a layer of black photographic paper and with an outer layer of aluminium foil.
Faraday pressurized chlorine gas inside a curved glass tube that was submerged at one end in a beaker of crushed ice.
Irradiation was carried out under permanent stirring in glass beakers covered with fused silica plates.
The beaker in front of the first pitcher is a prize example of Anthony Rasch's New Orleans work, about 1825 to 1835.
You will learn how to use scientific apparatus such as test tubes, beakers and Bunsen burners.
As he watched the events occurring between the two moons, he blew on a plastic beaker of fragrant Arcturan tea.
After that I drove home for a little doze and then enjoyed a couple of beakers at the Royal.
Holding within their billowed masses the healing punishments of the rain, chaliced beakers of golden flame, lightnings instant and unbearable as the face of God -- dissolving into a crystal nothing, reborn from the viewless caverns of air -- here let us erect one enraptured altar to the bright mountains of the sky! Shandygaff
Exhibits include beautiful Anglo Saxon jewellery, beakers made by the Bronze Age ‘Beaker People’, flints and pottery.
An aliquot of whole blood was taken in a sterilized flat bottom 25 ml glass beaker.
We haven't felt this flustered since our last hot bath and a large beaker of glowing Absinthe.
At this point a servant appeared bearing a rough tray on which were set three horn beakers.
On the north side of the room was Dipper's Magic shop, which was rather humble, comprising only a few shelves behind a counter upon which rested beakers and glass containers of what Doremi recognized were common spell components.
A tempered glass or stainless steel beaker is preheated with boiling water, coarse-ground coffee is added, then hot water. Buying and brewing good coffee in Mexico
Inside the room-sized locker they built a virtual laboratory - complete with beakers, funnels, jars, glass tubes, transfer pumps and vats of chemicals.
It was great — an orgy under the sky, a contest of beaker-men, a study in primitive beastliness. Local Color
At the first leaf stage they were removed from the dishes and carefully threaded through thin glass tubes suspended from the lids of 600 ml beakers containing culture solution at pH 5.6.
From the near vicinity, there is a small beaker in Romano-British style from a grave at Little Wittenham, embellished with scenes depicting episodes in the life of Christ.
The Australian pair, with established reputations as musicians and composers, use a chemistry set of test tubes, Bunsen burner, pipettes, beakers and bowls rather than an orchestra for their musical performance.
Indeed, their population is increasing now, but the beaker is almost full and their reproductive rate is starting to drop. An Ancient Time Frame
When they heard that he worked on a trawler they opened the bottle and poured a teaspoonful into a beaker adding hot water.
Other discoveries include a wooden beaker, barbed arrowheads and armour.
Basically, this consists of a large metal beaker and matching glass, the two of which can be jammed together when you come to whoosh up your ingredients.
He turned, still imperious, to the table, placing in the center of its well a small glass beaker, which he filled from a flask until slivovitz reached a marked level circumference. The DreydelMaker (exerpt)
In the 19th century, glass-making became industrialised and many items were mass produced e.g., beakers, bowls, door handles.
Late in the 3rd millennium BC, a round barrow was raised over a Beaker grave at Hemp Knoll in the chalk downland of southern England, three miles south-west of Avebury in Wiltshire.
Shapes and patterns - use upturned plastic beakers, egg cups or food storage boxes to press out shapes from a piece of rolled-out dough.
The stranger knocked back half the beaker, wiped his mouth on his sleeve, and coughed heavily for long enough that the barman flicked him a worried glance.
Now for this water it behoveth us have three pairs of fine fat capons, and for other things that are required thereanent, do thou give one of these (thy comrades) five silver crowns, so he may buy them, and let carry everything to my shop; and to-morrow, in God's name, I will send thee the distilled water aforesaid, whereof thou shalt proceed to drink a good beakerful at a time. ' The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio
A few pieces of glass and the broad lip of a Pyrex beaker tinkled to the floor. DO NO HARM
They include two pieces of commemorative fine china - a beaker and trinket box, both with gold embellishment.
Using beakers, a scale and a fancy temperature sensor called a thermocouple, he set to work with ice and water. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
Ryker passed her once more, glancing at her, cradling a plastic beaker of tea in his hand.
I had no guess; and I seized on the idea of that mystic shoe-horn with delight, even as, a little later, I should have written flagon, chalice, hanaper, beaker, or any word that might have appealed to me at the moment as least contaminate with mean associations. Essays of Travel
One demonstration included three beakers, each containing the contents of a red, green or blue glow stick, and each luminescing one of those three colors of light.
The precipitate formed is allowed to settle, 50 c.c. of the supernatant solution is removed with a pipette and transferred to a beaker; 50 c.c. of decinormal nitric acid and some water is added with sufficient cochineal tincture. Scientific American Supplement, No. 324, March 18, 1882
Your were wearing these black chinos and this merino wool sweater that matched your eyes, I remember because one of my students spilled a beaker of HCl right in front of you and a little got on that sweater.
In the Bronze Age remains were interred with food vessels or beakers, hence the term ‘Beaker Folk’.
The researchers say that this enables the coded particles to perform thousands of biochemical assays in a small beaker or a Petri dish.
Spend all day in bed tomorrow, in the dark, with the windows shut and only a plastic beaker of water for nourishment, and you'll be fine.
In the earliest phase, for example, colour-coated beakers are seen as uniquely appropriate for young people, both as urns and accessory vessels; and at all times small Samian cups were only ever found with children younger than eight.
You'll remember the sort of thing - drop something volatile in a beaker of acid and watch it whiz round and round, effervescing violently and smelling of bad eggs.
Through past study a broadly accepted relative chronology for Beaker pottery had been developed.
Those revellers who'd brought their own champagne stood around and toasted 2004 in plastic beakers.
Bristol Corporation gave us blue, gilt-crested beakers and booklets telling how the first Elizabeth had visited the city in 1574.
She remained quiet as she poured the water into the clear glass beaker.
She shouted over the explosion of several glass beakers.
It looks like copper sulfate, which is innocuous enough to be carrying around in an open beaker. Rambles at starchamber.com » Blog Archive » Thoughtful scientist, colored water
What's more, it's fantastic late at night when you're with other Stones fans and you've had a few cleansing beakers.
The solution in the beaker was evaporated to dryness, in doing so the arsenious oxide was volatilized, possibly as arsenious chloride.
She drank from a plastic beaker.
Cooling the beaker helps precipitate the compound.
Mr. Trummer and Ms. Tierney have been trading legal papers since last year over ownership of the cocktail haunt, where bartenders in white lab coats decoct botanical-and-herb-infused elixirs from laboratory beakers. NYT > Home Page
She had shouted so loud in his face that Troy jumped startled and lost his grip on the beaker.
From the near vicinity, there is a small beaker in Romano-British style from a grave at Little Wittenham, embellished with scenes depicting episodes in the life of Christ.
Ice cream, followed by wholesome milk, malt, syrup and beaters, was lowered into a tall beaker.
I sat, and as my eyes grew strong again, she glided from shelf to chest, and came back with a pottery pitcher and two tiny silver beakers.
Dental health experts are urging parents to switch from a bottle to beakers as soon as their babies have teeth.
He added two scroll handles to a footed beaker so that the cup could be passed easily from one communicant to the next.
~ -- Take from 1 to 1.5 gram, weigh carefully, and transfer to a beaker; add 20 c.c. of water and 10 c.c. of nitric acid; cover with a clock glass, and allow to dissolve with moderate action; boil off nitrous fumes, dilute to 100 c.c., and electrolyse. A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines.
I put my books on my lab table in chemistry, being careful not to knock over any of the glass beakers that were sitting out.
Down in a hollow I hear the brimming note of the white-throated sparrow, -- brimming is the only word that expresses it, -- like "a beaker full of the warm South," -- such joy, such overflowing measure of bliss! An Island Garden
Cold and shaken from the journey, thick with sediment and drunk from a plastic beaker, it tasted like medicine.
Storey, too, had passed, leaving Rebus to purchase a reheated bridie, most of which now lay in the gutter alongside the beaker of coffee. Fleshmarket Close
A faint scent curiously similar to blackberry cobbler wafted on a warm draft from the beaker.
One balanced a beaker of steaming coffee on a nearby terminal before moving on bearing a full tray.
As with so many Beaker burial sites of this date, the mound was not raised to commemorate a single grave.
I topped up her beaker a few times and we made an effort at conversation, but it was forced and stilted.
Put the meconate of lead with water into a beaker and pass hydrogen sulphide; sulphide of lead is formed, and meconic acid set free. Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology
Put the meconate of lead with water into a beaker and pass hydrogen sulphide; sulphide of lead is formed, and meconic acid set free. Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology
Excavated in 1911, the primary burial dates to about 2500 BC and comprised a crouched inhumation in a cist accompanied by a beaker, bone pin, and flint tools.
Beautiful Anglo-Saxon jewellery, beakers made by the Bronze Age people, flints and pottery will all be part of the exhibition.
At the cutlery and condiments counter, besides the usual articles you will also find plastic baby bibs, cups, beakers, bowls and spoons, which customers are welcome to use.
I poured in a beakerful of water, and the whole thing exploded and threw a lot of it into my eyes. Edison, His Life and Inventions, vol. 2
Pilate splashed some wine into a big beaker and brought the vessel up to Ivan's lips.
Now to make this potion we must have three pair of good fat capons, and, for divers other ingredients, thou wilt give one of thy friends here five pounds in small change to purchase them, and thou wilt have everything sent to my shop, and so, please God, I will send thee this distilled potion to-morrow morning, and thou wilt take a good beakerful each time. The Decameron, Volume II
Top executives first briefed a packed amphitheater of reporters and then sent them on a three-hour tour of its plants, past swirling beakers, giant fermentation vats and filters.
His technique involves throwing beakers, bowls, bottles and lidded jars in Limoges porcelain, which are then glazed using combinations of tenmoku and a deep celadon.
Representative goblets and beakers of late sixteenth century and seventeenth century date are illustrated in Figures 3.50 and 3.51.
Whether or not these beakers were used for wine is doubtful but 18th century French beakers with their characteristic plinth feet may well have been.
Magnifying glasses, beakers and magnets were the order of the day at the opening of St. Saviour's National School science room.
In the milking process, a snake is prompted to bite through a latex membrane stretched over a glass beaker.
So when the train from London arrived ten minutes early, catching me with a compressed paper beaker half full with scalding hot coffee I was somewhat discombobulated.
To standardise the "ferrocyanide" measure off 50 c.c. of the standard zinc solution into a 10 oz. beaker, dilute to 100 c.c., and heat to about 50° C. (not to boiling). A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines.
Dip the capsule into a beaker containing thin celloidin, beyond the junction with the glass and after removal rotate it in front of the blowpipe air blast to dry it evenly. The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged.
This experiment involved a Bunsen burner, glass beakers, and a chemical, among other things.
Beaker & Flask is known for high-octane cocktails, both refined and capable of turning your head inside out so that you're wearing your brain as a kind of coonskin cap. Portland Mercury
Without soil, nutrition and light, bean sprouts are cultivated with distilled water in the beaker.
What's going on in the beaker is actually quite a complex set of chemical reactions. Top 10 Mad Science-Worthy Chemistry Experiments
Alex had silently walked behind the lady on the laboratory benches, his feet lifting carefully over drying beakers and past a chemistry set.
By turning the screw he could bring the level of mercury inside the glass beaker up just high enough to touch the point of an ivory pin set there to mark zero on the scale, allowing, each time, an accurate reading at the top.
Colin saw human bone and Beaker sherds and called Wessex Archaeology: a team was on site that afternoon.
If an empty beaker is lowered part way into the liquid, the liquid flows upward, over the edge and down into the beaker. The Nobel Prize in Physics 1996 - Presentation Speech
Linking our fingers, we brought our mugs against theirs with such force that their beakers shattered.
She gave the children beakers of juice.
Others show a pair of young men, their faces weirdly painted, toying with liquid-filled beakers and sitting down to a repast of blue-painted goose.
In the beaker-strewn lab, they add chemicals that will react with contaminants by turning a certain color, and measure the change with a colorimeter.
He downed the third beaker of jhana, the local rotgut.
She said a dirty beaker was left under his bed for three weeks, while toenail clippings remained on the floor for three days.
Top executives first briefed a packed amphitheater of reporters and then sent them on a three-hour tour of its plants, past swirling beakers, giant fermentation vats and filters.
The halls of the Science department were decorated with stuffed animals, molecular models, and beakers of chemicals, all behind glass displays.
The ink will be visibly distinguishable from the water for some amount of time, but it will diffuse eventually to all areas of the beaker.
There he topped off the night by drinking a whole beaker of unmixed wine in a single gulp, after which he shrieked as if hit by a blow and was led back to his bed by his friends. Alexander the Great
The silanized coverslips were held in a glass beaker covered with aluminum foil for up to 5 days.
You're in for a rough night," she said, pouring out a steaming beakerful and handing it to him. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
A beaker and a flask steamed on the bench beside him as he spoke.
She lifted her plastic beaker to me ‘I guess this is the last time then.’
One memorable object was a fine rusticated 2nd century beaker wrapped in a 1927 newspaper.
Patrick opened a filing cabinet drawer and removed a full bottle: 200ml beakers made great glasses, there was a carboy of distilled water, and every laboratory had an ice machine. Naked Cruelty
As the sun went down, the pillared forest aisles stretching westward, filled first with golden haze, then glowed with a light redder than Phthiotan wine poured from the burning beaker of the sun; and only the mournful cooing of doves broke the solemn silence as the pine organ whispered its low coranach for the dead day; and the cool shadow of coming night crept, purple-mantled, velvet - sandaled, down the forest glades. St. Elmo
We had been pre-warned that there wasn't an interval in the show so we'd have to take our pre-show drinks in plastic beakers.
A beaker of soda glass with air bubbles and figures on either side of the coat-of-arms, and dated 1624
Use a spoon or introduce lidded beakers.

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