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Erlenmeyer flask   Listen
noun
Flask  n.  
1.
A small bottle-shaped vessel for holding fluids; as, a flask of oil or wine.
2.
A narrow-necked vessel of metal or glass, used for various purposes; as of sheet metal, to carry gunpowder in; or of wrought iron, to contain quicksilver; or of glass, to heat water in, etc.
3.
A bed in a gun carriage. (Obs.)
4.
(Founding) The wooden or iron frame which holds the sand, etc., forming the mold used in a foundry; it consists of two or more parts; viz., the cope or top; sometimes, the cheeks, or middle part; and the drag, or bottom part. When there are one or more cheeks, the flask is called a three part flask, four part flask, etc.
Erlenmeyer flask, a thin glass flask, flat-bottomed and cone-shaped to allow of safely shaking its contents laterally without danger of spilling; so called from Erlenmeyer, a German chemist who invented it.
Florence flask.
(a)
Same as Betty, n., 3.
(b)
A glass flask, round or pear-shaped, with round or flat bottom, and usually very thin to allow of heating solutions.
Pocket flask, a kind of pocket dram bottle, often covered with metal or leather to protect it from breaking.





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