Dew|ar tube

Dew|ar tube
Dew|ar flask, Dew|ar vessel, Dew|ar bulb, or Dew|ar tube «DOO uhr, DYOO-»,
a glass vessel with double, silvered walls, from between which the air has been removed, used especially as a container for liquefied gases.
[< Sir James Dewar, 1842-1923, a Scottish chemist, who invented it]

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