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pipette, n.|pɪˈpɛt|
[a. F. pipette, dim. of pipe pipe n.1: see -ette.]
1. Also (U.S.) pipet. A pipe or tube of small calibre, and of various forms, used (esp. in chemistry or in scientific experiments) to transfer or measure small quantities of a liquid or gas.
1839Ure Dict. Arts 68 We readily obtain a volume of 100 cubic centimetres by means of a pipette. 1860F. W. Griffin in Jrnl. Soc. Arts VIII. 324/1 By means of a graduated pipette I took a thousandth part containing..one thousandth of a grain of arsenious acid. 1884Times 27 Oct. 4/2 A ‘pipette’ is..a glass tube with a..swelling about one-third up from its lower end. It is used..in laboratories..for sucking up small quantities..of poisons,..or objectionable liquids. 1937Pierce & Haenisch Quantitative Analysis v. 49 In all pipets the flow of liquid is controlled by admission of air beneath a finger pressed tightly onto the upper end of the stem. 1961G. R. Choppin Exper. Nucl. Chem. ix. 133 When the preparation is complete, carefully remove as much of the supernate as possible with a transfer pipet and place on a planchet.
attrib.1881Tyndall Floating Matter of Air 139 note, I have called them ‘pipette-bulbs’ because they are formed by hermetically sealing one shank of a pipette. Ibid. 173 If..the india-rubber tube failed to clasp with sufficient tightness the pipette-shank. 1898Allbutt's Syst. Med. V. 437 Distilled water is then added, drop by drop, from the pipette stopper of a bottle supplied for that purpose.
2. Pottery Manuf. A can or pot fitted with a narrow tube through which slip or barbotine is poured upon the ware for decoration.
Hence piˈpette (U.S. pipet) v. trans., to pour, convey, or draw (off, out) by means of a pipette; hence piˈpetting vbl. n.
1887Amer. Chem. Jrnl. IX. 177 (Cent.) The solution of arsenic acid was pipetted into the bottle. 1899J. Cagney tr. Jaksch's Clin. Diagn. iv. (ed. 4) 138 The æther is pipetted or siphoned off. 1915Chem. Abstr. IX. 1861 (heading) Pipetting with the suction pump. 1943Jrnl. Bacteriol. XLVI. 195 The tedium of making a large number of accurately measured pipettings. 1961G. R. Choppin Exper. Nucl. Chem. ix. 132 Pipet approximately 10,000 cpm of Cs137 activity into a small test tube. 1975Nature 13 Mar. 151/2 The blood was cooled..and the plasma was pipetted off for enzyme analysis. |