pipette
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++pi·pette /pɪˈpet $ paɪ-/ noun [countable] HHTa thin glass tube for sucking up exact amounts of liquid, used especially in chemistry 〔尤指化学实验用的〕吸量管，移液管 →5 see picture at 见图 laboratory
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pipette• Then it is gripped by suction to the end of a pipette, under the microscope.• If the injection pipette is renewed between operations, solutions can be injected using the simpler in vitro injection pipette. 10.• Straight holding and in vitro injection pipettes are appropriate for manipulations carried out in a manipulation chamber.• She had to be fed, as well as by me, with a kind of pipette, like a fountain pen filler.• Thoroughly mix using a Pasteur pipette.• In each case the pipette should be gently inserted and withdrawn from the fluid in order to minimize disturbance.• If the chromosomes are in the pipette then they will glow-because they have been treated with fluorescent dye.Origin pipette (1800-1900) French pipe “pipe”pi·pette nounChineseSyllable
of amounts exact liquid, up tube Corpus sucking for thin a glass
pipette
pi‧pette /pɪˈpet $ paɪ-/
noun [countable]
pi‧pette /pɪˈpet $ paɪ-/
noun [countable] Date: 1800-1900
Language: French
Origin: pipe 'pipe'
a thin glass tube for sucking up exact amounts of liquid, used especially in chemistry
Language: French
Origin: pipe 'pipe'
