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Alternatively, a beaker may be covered with another larger beaker that has been inverted, though a watch glass is preferable. Beakers are often graduated, that is, marked on the side with lines indicating the volume contained. For instance, a 250 mL beaker might be marked with lines to indicate 50, 100, 150, 200, and 250 mL of volume.
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Beaker (drinkware), a beverage container; Beaker (laboratory equipment), a glass container used for holding liquids in a laboratory setting; Beaker (archaeology), a prehistoric drinking vessel; Beaker culture, the archaeological culture often called the Beaker people; Sippy cup, referred to as a beaker in UK English
Beaker made using the ‘Zwischengoldglas’ technique, mid 18th century V&A Museum no. 1271-1872. Zwischengoldglas, (German "gold between glass", plural Zwischengoldgläser) is a type of decorated glassware in which a design in gold leaf is created on a glass vessel, then sealed under another precisely-fitting glass vessel, which is then bonded to the first piece with cement.
The appearance of the Hedwig beakers resembles rock crystal, or quartz, and they are made of soda ash glass, which is composed of plant ash and quartz sand. [9] Although no two look exactly alike, all have a similar conical shape, thick walls, and wheel-cut ornament. [10]
A watch glass is a circular concave piece of glass used in chemistry as a surface to evaporate a liquid, to hold solids while being weighed, for heating a small amount of substance, and as a cover for a beaker. When used to cover beakers, the purpose is generally to prevent dust or other particles from entering the beaker; the watch glass does ...
A Fleaker is a brand of container for liquids used in the laboratory. It can be described as a cross between the Griffin beaker and the Erlenmeyer flask. [1]Like a beaker, the bottom is flat, with the sides meeting the bottom at a 90-degree angle.
A claw beaker is a name given by archaeologists to a type of glass cup or drinking vessel often found as a grave good in 6th and 7th century AD Frankish and Anglo-Saxon burials. Found in northern France , eastern England , Germany and the Low Countries , it is a plain conical beaker with small, claw-like handles or lugs protruding from the ...