Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An insulated container used especially to store liquefied gases, having a double wall with a vacuum between the walls and silvered surfaces facing the vacuum.
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- noun A type of
double -walled vacuum flask withsilver lining .
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- noun vacuum flask that holds liquid air or helium for scientific experiments
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[After Sir James Dewar, (1842–1923), British chemist and physicist who invented it.]
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Named after James Dewar.
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