beaker

Graduated lab container

A beaker is a cylindrical container, typically glass, used for mixing, measuring, or heating liquids.

In laboratory settings, beakers have a lip for pouring and graduated markings for rough measurement: She poured the solution into a beaker.

Outside the lab, beaker can mean any large drinking cup, especially one without handles.

laboratory

flask

Portable liquid container

Bunsen burner · microscope · centrifuge · petri dish · tongs · reagent · titration · experiment · research · scientist

vessel

container

Thing for storing items

  • cupSmall drinking container
  • flaskPortable liquid container
  • jarWide-mouthed storage vessel

pitcher · mug · tumbler · receptacle · drinking vessel · holding · pouring · carafe

glassware

borosilicate

Heat-tolerant glass compound

cylindrical · spout · lip · pour · fragile · shatterproof · tempered · clear · sturdy · handleless

measurement

graduated

Completed formal studies

metric · capacity · meniscus · increments · quantify · liters · fluid ounces · precision · scale · markings

muppet

Jim Henson

explosion · comedy · puppet · assistant · chaos · experiment

mixing

stirring

Arousing strong emotion

solution · agitating · swirling · homogenizing · diluting · suspension · emulsifying · rod

Categories
Opposites
laboratory vessel shape/design

beakertest tube

Narrow cylindrical lab vessel

Erlenmeyer flask

measurement precision

beakergraduated cylinder

Marked tube for liquid volume

burette · pipette · micropipette

Family

beakers

Familiarity
Top 50,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G