Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A small glass vessel, usually cylindrical or nearly cylindrical in form, generally having a spout or beak and a foot: it has sometimes a graduated scale on the side.
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word test-glass.
Examples
-
In the February number of this _Journal_ the writer described a new settling tube for urinary deposits which possessed several advantages over the old method with conical test-glass and pipette.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 595, May 28, 1887 Various
-
From the opposite or lower side of the rectangle a small glass cup, _c. _, is suspended, into which weights are put as soon as the disc has been made to rest on the surface of the jelly, _pp_ is the plate of glass on which the test-glass is set.
-
This is precisely what happens in a test-glass in which we see the camphor in motion become immovable if the level of the water be raised a few centimeters, and, more especially, if it be raised to the upper edge of the apparatus.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 401, September 8, 1883 Various
-
The gas was caused to flow through a capillary tube into the solution con - tained in a test-glass.
-
Into these tubes was put a mixture of two volumes of hydrogen and one of oxygen, at the water pneumatic trough, and when one of the plates described had been connected with the positive or negative pole of the voltaic battery for a given time, or had been otherwise prepared, it was introduced through the water into the gas within the tube; the whole set aside in a test-glass (fig. 58.), and left for a longer or shorter period, that the action might be observed.
Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1 Michael Faraday 1829
-
a conical test-glass, [45] which the jelly nearly filled.
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.