Schöniger flask combustion involves a special Erlenmeyer flask to which is added a small volume of a suitable solution (often a dilute sodium carbonate or sodium hydroxide solution) that absorbs and retains the inorganic analytes.
"Could you please elaborate?" The black guy cocked his head and frowned, as if the beakers and Erlenmeyer flasks of his experiment had grown legs and scurried off.
Panicked, I tell the assistant principal that I need to use the bathroom, and end up spending the next three hours hiding in the science lab's supply cabinet, huffing ammonia from an Erlenmeyer flask.
Personally, I opt for the strictly functional: I've been using Erlenmeyer flasks at home for years.
There, in the Momofuku test kitchen, Mr. Felder gave Mr. Katz a glimpse of a brilliantly demented-fermented future: Erlenmeyer flasks full of new iterations of soy sauce, jars of vinegar conjured up from ingredients like strawberries and cherries, little mounds of paste that represented the next wave in miso.
Almost every night there was a party where people did slightly queer, science-nerd things, such as serving daiquiris in Erlenmeyer flasks or evaporating dishes, or autoclaving clams instead of steaming them.
A proper laboratory means togging up in overalls, which certainly puts you in the right frame of mind for microscopes and gently gyrating Erlenmeyer flasks.
Adrift in ancient excelsior were a broken Erlenmeyer flask, a pear-shaped glass tube with a penny-head stopper, a pair of crucible tongs, the leather-clad box that contained the remains of a portable Zeiss microscope.
Concurrently, Mr. Gibson said, interest in cylinder seals jumped with the sale of the Erlenmeyer collection, assembled by a distinguished scholar, from the 1940's until his death in 1967.
