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bell jar

[′bel ‚jär]
(engineering)
A bell-shaped vessel, usually made of glass, which is used for enclosing a vacuum, holding gases, or covering objects. Also known as bell glass.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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The experiment mimics the effects of inhaling tobacco smoke, e-cigarette vape and normal air into the lungs, with the lungs represented by three bell jars filled with cotton wool.
Both stylistically as well as thematically The Bell Jar would fit into the category of the popular fiction generally published in the 1950s in American magazines like The New Yorker (Ferrater 2010, 24).
5.3.3 Take care to prevent the bubbling mixture from spilling over the edges of its container, either by firmly tapping the vacuum bell jar up and down on the benchtop of the fume hood, or by briefly venting the vacuum bell jar.
Suited to readers who enjoyed The Bell Jar (Harper & Row, 1971), the novel examines relationships and betrayals, sexual flirtations, sanity, and parallels between Keek's life and Plath's protagonist, Esther Greenwood.
Sipahi said that a 5-meter snake was being kept in a 1 square-meter bell jar, crocodiles were kept tied in containers of 20 cm depth which were located on a hot concrete platform and lions and tigers were being kept in 3-4 square-meter cages.
Organ: He wanted his eyes cryogenically preserved/in separate tanks,//his friends among the organ farmers, untrustworthy and powerful.//Martini displayed in a bell jar, the hollow pupiled olive, whitening with age.
Her novel, "The Bell Jar," was released to widespread accolades throughout the literary community and her poetry has been described as the quintessential voice of female empowerment and longing.
All people (including poor ones, marginalized cohorts, and 'bell jar' privilegentsia) must get incentives to produce pursuant to aptitude, ability, and interest--by rewarding demonstrated skills, respecting achievement, allowing children growing-up time to learn for the rest of their lives.
Paltrow reveals she always had a feeling she would one day portray the life of the doomed poet who penned the hugely successful semi -autobiographical novel The Bell Jar. The story, a favourite of angst -ridden teenagegirls, tells of a young woman writer's slide into depression and the brutal treatment she undergoes for it.
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