Meaning & use

Pipet

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A slender laboratory tube used to measure or transfer small, precise volumes of liquid.

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The technician used a pipet to add exactly two milliliters of reagent to the sample.

Students practiced their pipet technique before running the titration experiment.

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"Pipet" is an accepted American English variant spelling of "pipette," which comes from the French pipette, a diminutive of pipe.

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