battery jar

American  

noun

1. a rather large cylindrical container of heavy glass with an open top, used in laboratories.

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Example Sentences

If it is not possible to secure either of these, a large glass jar, such as a battery jar or large fruit jar, will be found to answer quite well.

From Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study by Ontario. Ministry of Education

By placing crystals of blue vitriol in the battery jar, the solution of blue vitriol can be kept up to its full strength for a very long time.

From The Story of Great Inventions by Burns, Elmer Ellsworth

The cake of unchanged zinc dust and zinc compounds is transferred to a 3-l. battery jar and placed under the stirrer, and the latter is clamped in place.

From Organic Syntheses by Conant, James Bryant

The material is a heavy hard rubber stock which will be no more affected by acid or by electrical conditions in the cell than the hard rubber battery jar itself.

From The Automobile Storage Battery Its Care And Repair by Witte, Otto A.

The same plan may be adopted with wide glass jars, like the ordinary battery jar.

From Butterflies Worth Knowing by Weed, Clarence M.