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beaker

noun as in cup

Strongest match

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The pair breaks every beaker on Kirsh’s table until the cyborg slams the android over it, breaking his artificial spine.

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Early on, the videos fall into the realm of hobbyist experiments: He exploded a small hydrogen balloon; he concocted glass beakers of acids.

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The researchers collected seeds and placed them onto special brown paper, which was then rolled into a cigar shape and stored upright in narrow glass beakers.

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The use of carinated beakers to store and serve dairy products was particularly common in burials near the circular enclosure of Pömmelte.

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Other students recorded the snake’s behavior while Hayes hooked, pinned, grabbed, and eventually extracted venom from the snake, by compelling it to bite a parafilm-covered beaker.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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