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retort stand
noun
An item of laboratory equipment which consists of a metal pole with a solid, firm base, used to hold, or clamp, laboratory glassware and other equipment in place, so that they do not fall down or come apart.
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It was then hanged on a retort stand overnight to allow drainage.
Mice were trained prior the test to climb a ladder of (6 cm long) suspended from a clamp of a retort stand (100 cm above ground).
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The subject was positioned with his dominant hand resting palm-down on the table between the retort stands, and the apparatus was adjusted so that the paintbrush lightly tracked across the skin of the hand when the handle was rotated by the subject, using his nondominant hand.
He often disrupted Plato's lectures and when Alexander the Great, leaning over him, offered to give him anything he wanted, Diogenes famously retorted "Stand out of my light".
The retort-stand upon which time has experimented with human mortality, that's the sort of observation you'd make - but far cruder.
The vessel was then inverted and suspended above the level of the flow cell on a retort clamp stand, allowing the flow of medium by gravity, thus reducing the work of the peristaltic pump.
"She don't want husband, she want one-night stand," retorted her co-worker.
Dyson retorted: "Can't you stand free speech?" Evidently not.
"Why not?" Trump retorted.
Except that Steven Johnson would retort that it also stands on the foundations of those platforms for innovation.
For the Heat, this game stood as a nice retort to the critics who in the insisted that James needed to shoot more and score more, despite his triple-double in Game 1.
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