Erlenmeyer flask

English

An Erlenmeyer flask.

Etymology

Named after German chemist Emil Erlenmeyer, who invented it in 1861.

Noun

Erlenmeyer flask (plural Erlenmeyer flasks)

(chemistry) A glass laboratory flask of a conical profile with a narrow tubular neck and a flat bottom, used to manipulate solutions or carry out titrations.
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 265:
  An assistant arrived with a wheeled cart bearing coffee in an Erlenmeyer flask, cups, and a plate of strange muffins.

Synonyms

conical flask

Translations

conical laboratory flask

Finnish: erlenmeyerkolvi
French: erlenmeyer (fr)
German: Erlenmeyerkolben m
Hungarian: Erlenmeyer-lombik
Italian: beuta (it) f, matraccio di Erlenmeyer m
Malay: kelalang kon

Norwegian:
Bokmål: erlenmeyerkolbe m

Nynorsk: erlenmeyerkolbe m
Russian: ко́лба Э́рленме́йера f (kólba Érlenméjera), кони́ческая ко́лба f (koníčeskaja kólba)
Swedish: E-kolv c, Erlenmeyerkolv c

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