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Test tube

noun

Glass tube closed at one end.

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"Test tube" Quotes from Famous Books

... their game!" he cried, as he smote the table with his fist, thereby nearly upsetting a test tube of acid, which Tom caught just in time. "I knew something crooked was going on, and they thought I'd be so badly overcome in the fire that I wouldn't know, ...

— Tom Swift among the Fire Fighters - or, Battling with Flames from the Air • Victor Appleton

... chemistry was rather crude in those days. Instead of assaying in a test tube, Dr. Pottenger kept several big cages full of cats that he had adrenalectomized. Without their own adrenals, the cats could not live more than a short time By finding out how much extract was required to keep the cats from failing, he could measure ...

— How and When to Be Your Own Doctor • Dr. Isabelle A. Moser with Steve Solomon

Words linked to "Test tube" : tube, tubing