The phrase "a specimen box" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a container designed to hold and display specimens, often in scientific or educational contexts.
Example: "The museum displayed a variety of insects in a specimen box for visitors to observe."
Alternatives: "a sample box" or "a display case".
Each cover consists of a photograph of a specimen box, the kind used by collectors like Nabokov to display insects.
John Mellor tells me he was shown a specimen box kept in a storeroom in the police station that contained the excrement pushed through her letterbox.
Another, more radical example is John Kalymnios's trippy arrangement of synthetic fauna in a specimen box with an electric motor that causes the elements to move.
The two sealed bottles are put in a plastic bag that is sealed and placed in a specimen box, which is also sealed with a security sticker.
For his macabre still-life "Memento Mori" from 1998, he arranged 30 real and synthetic flies in a specimen box and pasted paper cutout heads of the 1997-98 Most Valuable Players from each of the 30 N.B.A. teams on their bodies.
Difference between designed and measured shrinkage at the specific position of a specimen box is minimized as a characteristic value to decide the quality of molded parts.
Soil water content was measured by the oven drying technique (Zhao 1981; Lao 1988; Schmugge et al. 1980), that is a 15 or 20 g sample was collected in the field and quickly enclosed in an aluminum specimen box with a known weight (m).
The Cricket Box -- a portable wooden drawer with a digital recorder and player -- collects the sounds of the garden, like an entomologist's specimen box or a traditional Chinese cricket cage, reintroducing them as a lullaby for a sleepy baby, for instance, or chamber music for a midnight meal.
Bioluminescence imaging was performed with a CCD camera mounted in a light-tight specimen box (Xenogen, Waltham, MA, USA).
Fluorescent imaging (FLI) was performed with a high sensitivity, cooled CCD camera mounted in a light-tight specimen box (IVIS™; Xenogen).
Bioluminescent imaging was performed with a highly sensitive, cooled CCD camera mounted in a light-tight specimen box (IVIS™; Xenogen), using protocols similar to those described previously [ 14- 17].
