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burette

UK/bjʊəˈɹɛt/US/bjʊˈɹɛt/
nounC2Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speechToo rare in one of the two pools to compare — fewer than 20 uses in speech or in writing

Other forms: burettes

A burette is a tall tap-ended tube for adding liquid drop by drop. Fill the burette, read the burette.

The tap is what allows a single drop, which is the whole point of using one in a titration. A burette is read from the bottom of the curve the liquid makes rather than the edges.

Definitions of burette

  1. 1nounburetteA tall tap-ended tube for adding liquid drop by drop.C2

    “The burette was read to two decimal places at every step.”

burette is equipment.

Where it comes from

  1. French

    burette

  2. English, today

    burette

Borrowed from French burette.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Chemistry & Elements

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burette in the wild

  • A burette (also spelled buret) is a graduated glass tube with a tap at one end, for delivering known volumes of a liquid, especially in titrations.

    Burette

  • The flow of liquid from the tube to the burette tip is controlled by the stopcock valve.

    Burette

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.