graduated cylinders

Marked liquid tubes

Graduated cylinders are tall, narrow containers marked with measurement lines for measuring liquid volumes precisely.

Standard equipment in laboratories, they're more accurate than beakers but less precise than pipettes.

The graduations indicate volume in milliliters or liters: She poured the solution into a graduated cylinder to measure exactly 50 mL.

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