As one of the beakers bubbles over with something that looks like an Orange Julius and Subtle explains the stern laws of alchemy on a chalkboard, Dol, in a blond wig and red leather suit, descends the stair, talking to a toy monkey and singing "Hello, Dolly!" in a baby voice.
It is easy to imagine beakers bubbling over Bunsen burners, but that was a long time ago, before the kids threw the scalding beakers at one another and a teacher.
The beaker was placed over a magnetic stirrer and the temperature of the assembly was maintained at 37 ± 1 °C throughout the experiment.
In some of the booths, enormous stainless-steel machines touted features like "vaveless expansion technology"; giant glass flask and beaker rigs towered over their sales teams like props that would seem too on-the-nose in a mad scientist laboratory scene.
The Whatman filter paper was saturated with 4% (w/v) OsO4 and the beaker was turned over the canister.
An up-turned 500-mL glass beaker was placed over two open cryotubes containing 1 mL of saline and one open cryotube containing ethanol (see Fig. 2a).
Like a convert, I embraced the rituals, spending hours under the soft amber lights, holding beakers like chalices, head bowed over trays in worshipful anticipation.
Pictures of the underage Oona, seated in the Stork's elite Cub Room, smiling over a beaker of milk, were splashed in newspapers and magazines.
