lab notebook
Research record book
A lab notebook is a bound record where scientists document their experiments, observations, and data as work proceeds.
Unlike informal notes, lab notebooks follow strict protocols—entries are dated, written in permanent ink, and never erased.
They serve as legal evidence of discovery in patent disputes and scientific priority claims.
Her lab notebook showed she'd made the breakthrough three months before the rival team published.
- researchSystematic fact-finding effort
- scientific methodStructured process for investigation
- experimentSystematic investigation procedure
- dataFacts for analysis
- raw dataUnanalyzed collected information
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