Sentence examples for a beaker of boiling from inspiring English sources

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The phrase "a beaker of boiling" is not complete and lacks clarity in written English.
It could be used in a scientific context where one is referring to a beaker containing boiling liquid, but it needs additional information for clarity.
Example: "The chemist carefully poured the solution into a beaker of boiling water to initiate the reaction."
Alternatives: "a beaker of boiling water" or "a beaker of boiling liquid".

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Linda: There's a story (it may be apocryphal but it's a great story anyway) about a frog being put in a beaker of boiling water.

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He snipped out the plate to which the penis was attached, squeezed the seminal vesicle, hard-boiled the genitalia for five minutes in a beaker of ethanol and admired them under the microscope.

A beaker of 100 ml of 0.1 g/L HAuCl4 was heated to the rolling boil and then added the 0.7 ml of 10 g/L sodium citrate rapidly.

It's a little like that frog in a beaker of water that Al Gore talks about in his global warming speech — the one who won't notice he's being boiled to death if you turn up the heat ever so gradually.

A similar effect is created by rapidly shaking a beaker of water up and down.

Erin Sullivan, another bartender on duty, was focused on slowly stirring a beaker of intriguing-looking ingredients.

A beaker of the warm south, with carcinogenics winking at the brim – while you calculate your life expectancy?

A small but known amount of tracer added to a beaker of water can be evaporated under clean-room conditions.

When that same frog was placed in a beaker of room temperature water in which the temperature was slowly increased over time, he stayed in the beaker as the temperature slowly rose to the boiling point and he was cooked to death.

Like spilling a beaker of hydrochloric acid on a paper cut".

If this were a movie, the culprit would be a mad scientist who spilled a beaker of growth elixir on a lab frog.

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