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measuring cylinder

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Also known as graduated cylinder, mixing cylinder, graduate

common piece of laboratory equipment used to measure the volume of a liquid; has a narrow cylindrical shape

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Encyclopedic overview

Different types of graduated cylinder: 10mL, 25mL, 50mL and 100mL graduated cylinder A graduated cylinder, also known as a measuring cylinder or mixing cylinder, is a common piece of laboratory equipment used to measure the volume of a liquid. It has a narrow cylindrical shape. Each marked line on the graduated cylinder represents the amount of liquid that has been measured.

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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “measuring cylinder” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.