pipette

Example Sentences

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With a pipette, she places a single drop of this liquid on a gold-coated glass plate positioned under an optical microscope.

From Science Daily • Oct. 23, 2025

A disposable lancet must pierce the skin, before drops of blood can be sucked into a pipette, mixed with a chemical and placed in the test cassette.

From BBC • Mar. 4, 2025

Holding a pipette carefully in one hand, Laxamana talked through the radio to troubleshoot the problem.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 1, 2024

Whenever he saw standing water Gomes grabbed a hand pipette out of his bag and looked for larvae, which he collected in a white plastic container.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 15, 2024

He pointed to someone in a glassed-in room taking samples out of a petri dish with a pipette and putting it under a large, heavy-duty microscope hooked up to a computer monitor.

From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste