Flask
noun
A small bottle that has a narrow neck, especially one used in a laboratory.
He poured the solution into a glass flask.
Often appears as...
- glass flask
- laboratory flask
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noun
A container used to keep drinks hot or cold.
She filled her flask with hot coffee before leaving the house.
Often appears as...
- thermos flask
- vacuum flask
noun
A metal casting mold in foundry work.
The molten metal was poured into the flask to create the desired part.
Often appears as...
- foundry flask
- casting flask
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A small bottle that has a narrow neck, especially one used in a laboratory.
He poured the solution into a glass flask.
Often appears as...
- glass flask
- laboratory flask
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A container used to keep drinks hot or cold.
She filled her flask with hot coffee before leaving the house.
Often appears as...
- thermos flask
- vacuum flask
noun
A metal casting mold in foundry work.
The molten metal was poured into the flask to create the desired part.
Often appears as...
- foundry flask
- casting flask
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Scientific Usage
The term 'flask' is commonly used in scientific contexts, particularly in chemistry.
The scientist swirled the blue liquid in the flask carefully.
Pro Tip 2/3Shape Specific
In a lab, flasks have distinct shapes, like the Erlenmeyer flask, which is conical.
Please grab that conical flask for our experiment.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Glass
While often made of glass, flasks can also be plastic or metal in laboratories.
He labeled the plastic flasks before starting.
Pro Tip 1/3Scientific Usage
The term 'flask' is commonly used in scientific contexts, particularly in chemistry.
The scientist swirled the blue liquid in the flask carefully.
Pro Tip 2/3Shape Specific
In a lab, flasks have distinct shapes, like the Erlenmeyer flask, which is conical.
Please grab that conical flask for our experiment.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Glass
While often made of glass, flasks can also be plastic or metal in laboratories.
He labeled the plastic flasks before starting.
Pro Tip 1/3Scientific Usage
The term 'flask' is commonly used in scientific contexts, particularly in chemistry.
The scientist swirled the blue liquid in the flask carefully.
Pro Tip 2/3Shape Specific
In a lab, flasks have distinct shapes, like the Erlenmeyer flask, which is conical.
Please grab that conical flask for our experiment.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Glass
While often made of glass, flasks can also be plastic or metal in laboratories.
He labeled the plastic flasks before starting.
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How bacteria "talk" -...
clue to this came from another marine bacterium and it's a bacterium called Vibrio fischeri and so what you're looking at on this slide is just a person from my lab holding a flask of a liquid culture of a bacterium a harmless beautiful bacterium that comes from the ocean named Vibrio fischeri and this bacterium has the special
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Why Having Fun Is the...
of responsible adulthood, and giving yourself permission to get a kick out of your own life. One person told me that some of the most fun she'd had in recent memory, happened on a Friday morning, when she and some of her friends ditched their work and their childcare responsibilities, tucked flasks into their purses
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Lee Cronin: Making...
when analytical technologies and computer technologies were coming on. In my own laboratory, the way we're trying to create inorganic life is by using many different reaction formats. So what we're trying to do is do reactions -- not in one flask, but in tens of flasks, and connect them together,
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Biomolecular self-assembl...
of these glass flasks with molecular structures inside and there's three key components that make the self-assembly kit work the first is geometry geometry ensures that the molecular structure is built correctly the second is attraction mechanisms which allow the parts to find
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How to stop swiping and...
with a flask of whiskey to watch the sunset, and honestly, it was two blocks from my apartment. Plus, this guy had a podcast, I have a podcast, worst case scenario, we can talk about our podcasts. Then, Chas set down next to me. And this kind and empathetic man
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Adrian Myers: Where...
associated just with the Canadian guards another one the one I'm crouching in in this photo belonged to the prisoners in that half metre yellow square you see right there you can spot a Listerine bottle a harmonica whisky flask shoe
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The tale of the doctor...
accepted his offer. Years later, when the child had grown into an ambitious young man, his skeletal Godfather came for his promised visit. In his gnarled hand he held a flask containing the cure for all human ailments.
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TV Presenter Eats...
I'd make what pancakes blood pancake whose reindeer blood yeah is your blood in the flask yes flask of Bloods I'm glad that I didn't pick this up and say no I nice mug of coffee and it's
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The weird, wonderful...
lights down and have it as dark in here as possible I have a flask that has bioluminescent plankton in it and you'll note there's no light coming from them
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Unintended consequences...
flasks to ten thousand gallon vats that was how quickly penicillin was produced and became one of the greatest medical advance
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How bacteria "talk" -...
clue to this came from another marine bacterium and it's a bacterium called Vibrio fischeri and so what you're looking at on this slide is just a person from my lab holding a flask of a liquid culture of a bacterium a harmless beautiful bacterium that comes from the ocean named Vibrio fischeri and this bacterium has the special
Video examples
Why Having Fun Is the...
of responsible adulthood, and giving yourself permission to get a kick out of your own life. One person told me that some of the most fun she'd had in recent memory, happened on a Friday morning, when she and some of her friends ditched their work and their childcare responsibilities, tucked flasks into their purses
Video examples
Lee Cronin: Making...
when analytical technologies and computer technologies were coming on. In my own laboratory, the way we're trying to create inorganic life is by using many different reaction formats. So what we're trying to do is do reactions -- not in one flask, but in tens of flasks, and connect them together,
Video examples
Biomolecular self-assembl...
of these glass flasks with molecular structures inside and there's three key components that make the self-assembly kit work the first is geometry geometry ensures that the molecular structure is built correctly the second is attraction mechanisms which allow the parts to find
Video examples
How to stop swiping and...
with a flask of whiskey to watch the sunset, and honestly, it was two blocks from my apartment. Plus, this guy had a podcast, I have a podcast, worst case scenario, we can talk about our podcasts. Then, Chas set down next to me. And this kind and empathetic man
Video examples
Adrian Myers: Where...
associated just with the Canadian guards another one the one I'm crouching in in this photo belonged to the prisoners in that half metre yellow square you see right there you can spot a Listerine bottle a harmonica whisky flask shoe
Video examples
The tale of the doctor...
accepted his offer. Years later, when the child had grown into an ambitious young man, his skeletal Godfather came for his promised visit. In his gnarled hand he held a flask containing the cure for all human ailments.
Video examples
TV Presenter Eats...
I'd make what pancakes blood pancake whose reindeer blood yeah is your blood in the flask yes flask of Bloods I'm glad that I didn't pick this up and say no I nice mug of coffee and it's
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The weird, wonderful...
lights down and have it as dark in here as possible I have a flask that has bioluminescent plankton in it and you'll note there's no light coming from them
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Unintended consequences...
flasks to ten thousand gallon vats that was how quickly penicillin was produced and became one of the greatest medical advance
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Nathan Myhrvold
American Businessman
The cloning procedure is similar to IVF. The only difference is that the DNA of sperm and egg would be replaced by DNA from an adult cell. What law or principle - secular, humanist, or religious - says that one combination of genetic material in a flask is OK, but another is not?
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Ben Fogle
English Writer
I am honoured to be taking part in the Diamond Jubilee flotilla along the Thames in my 20-foot rowing boat. The energy levels will be high, partly because I'm planning to ply the crew with thermos flasks filled with Typhoo!
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Stephen Leacock
Canadian Economist
It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required.
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Ronnie Corbett
Scottish Comedian
If I wear too much tartan, I tend to look like a Thermos flask.
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Nathan Myhrvold
American Businessman
The cloning procedure is similar to IVF. The only difference is that the DNA of sperm and egg would be replaced by DNA from an adult cell. What law or principle - secular, humanist, or religious - says that one combination of genetic material in a flask is OK, but another is not?
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Ben Fogle
English Writer
I am honoured to be taking part in the Diamond Jubilee flotilla along the Thames in my 20-foot rowing boat. The energy levels will be high, partly because I'm planning to ply the crew with thermos flasks filled with Typhoo!
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Stephen Leacock
Canadian Economist
It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required.
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Ronnie Corbett
Scottish Comedian
If I wear too much tartan, I tend to look like a Thermos flask.
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