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  • noun Plural form of flask.

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Examples

  • I tried to do this reaction sequence in flasks with rubber stoppers (Figure 2), because I had no glassware with ground glass joints.

    Roger Y. Tsien - Autobiography 2009

  • In between I drank champagne, which had apparently been in every movie ever made, and cursed Mayer, and deleted beakers and laboratory flasks from the cantina scene in Star Wars.

    Futures Imperfect Willis, Connie 1994

  • If she went to bed now she would be sure to suffer all night, and in one of the flasks was a s ure cure.

    John Dough And The Cherub Baum, L. Frank 1906

  • Even some teens who come to Icing for $25 handbags, headbands and prom apparel called the flasks a bad idea.

    SouthCoastToday.com Latest Headlines 2009

  • The Pacific Teal is carrying 40 of these canisters loaded into two steel "flasks".

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • It put him in mind of a nineteenth-century laboratory or lecture theatre, and for an instant he saw Bunsen burners on wooden benches, flasks of acid and the skeleton of an ape.

    Occupy Elm Street Tom Nolan 2012

  • Pilgrim flasks document the collection of oil or water from a sacred site, as a portable "souvenir" with lasting spiritual power, while reliquary jewels and crosses, meant to be worn, suggest that relics were regarded as protective amulets.

    Where Revered Relics Repose Karen Wilkin 2011

  • When we used to use the general multi-lab cold room, I used to keep large flasks of just general ddH2O in there for the protein purification system.

    Don't Mess With Me Candid Engineer 2009

  • Perhaps a book or two will help you decide which way to go on patches, solvents (soap and water works), lubes, tools, starters, flasks, measures, and some tips.

    I was thinking about getting a Traditions Kentucky Rifle .50 Caliber Muzzleloader. 2009

  • Perhaps a book or two will help you decide which way to go on patches, solvents (soap and water works), lubes, tools, starters, flasks, measures, and some tips.

    I was thinking about getting a Traditions Kentucky Rifle .50 Caliber Muzzleloader. 2009

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