Definitions for burettes

burettes bu·rette

Spelling: [byoo-ret]
IPA: /byʊˈrɛt/

Burettes is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 207 anagrams from letters in burettes (beersttu).

Definitions for burettes

noun

  1. a graduated glass tube, commonly having a stopcock at the bottom, used for accurately measuring or measuring out small quantities of liquid.

Origin of burettes

1475-85; French: cruet, burette (Old French biurete), equivalent to buire ewer, flagon (perhaps Frankish *būrja receptacle, akin to Germanic *būr- hut; see bower

Examples for burettes

A single drop is let fall from a burette or glass rod held steadily above the water, upon the centre of the surface.

The water is allowed to rise into the burette as far as the cock, and the cocks, b and b¹, are afterward closed.

Run in from a burette decinormal sodic hydrate, to a faint pink color.

The amount of alkali that has been used can be determined from the burette.

Fill a burette with the solution of soda, and cautiously drop this into 63 gr.

burette, bū-ret′, n. a flask-shaped vessel for holding liquids, an altar-cruet.

While the water is flowing through b, the burette becomes filled with gas.

If a fifth normal caustic solution is used, the reading on the burette gives the percentage of free fatty acid directly.

From a burette, quarter normal (N/4) sulfuric acid is added until the pink color is just discharged.

And subsequently when the burette is used, the volumes read from the scale on the burette must be corrected.

Word Value for burettes
Scrable

9

Words with friends

11

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