beaker

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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.

From Science Magazine • Apr. 3, 2024

They showed that a mixture of molecules would form one of three structures depending on what concentrations of molecules were present in the beaker.

From Science Daily • Jan. 18, 2024

According to a now-archived blog post by the university, after an hour, "all that remained in the beaker was a pair of brown carnauba wax eyes floating in a purple Phenol soup."

From Salon • Feb. 2, 2023

If you prefer fatty bacon, the beaker can accommodate that.

From Washington Post • Jan. 13, 2023

The cell was a beaker of chemicals, biochemists argued, a pouch of compounds bound by a membrane that were reacting to produce a phenomenon called “life.”

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee