test-tube

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It comprised a brick-coloured concoction bubbling away in a test tube.

From BBC • Apr. 21, 2025

There are levels to the game, and on some levels, you don’t see the colors of the marbles that are farther down in the test tube until they are accessible.

From Slate • Dec. 28, 2024

Daniel Perez, an influenza researcher at the University of Georgia, is doing his own test tube study of pasteurization of milk spiked with a different avian influenza virus.

From Science Magazine • Apr. 22, 2024

However, because CMT is grown in a test tube, it has to mature, a process that takes time and can be easily disrupted by a clumsy sensor.

From Science Daily • Mar. 22, 2024

Under the right circumstances in the test tube, short nucleic acids can synthesize identical copies of themselves.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan