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Evaporating dish
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a shallow, flat-bottomed vessel typically made of glass or porcelain, used in laboratory settings for evaporating liquids to concentrate solutions or to precipitate dissolved substances
evaporating dish
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Example
In the metallurgy lab, the engineer used an evaporating dish to separate gold particles from the solution by evaporating the mercury.
During the experiment, the student heated the evaporating dish gently to remove excess water from the sample, allowing for accurate measurement of the solid residue.
The laboratory technician used an evaporating dish to concentrate a dilute solution by evaporating off the solvent under reduced pressure.
The biologist utilized an evaporating dish to prepare nutrient agar for bacterial culture by evaporating water and solidifying the agar medium.
The chemist transferred the solution into an evaporating dish and placed it on a hot plate to evaporate the solvent, leaving behind the desired solute.
