che|mo|stat

che|mo|stat
che|mo|stat «KEE muh STAT, KEHM uh-», noun.
any one of various chemically controlled devices for studying changes in living organisms: »

They invented the chemostat…for growing bacteria and observing mutations under controlled conditions (Harper's).

[< chemo- + -stat]

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