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watch-glass
noun
- a curved glass disc that covers the dial of a watch
- a similarly shaped piece of glass used in laboratories for evaporating small samples of a solution, etc
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I placed under a microscope a watch-glass with a drop of distilled water, after having carefully ascertained that it did not contain any visible animalcules.
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I had left it in the watch-glass, exposed to solar heat.
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He then covered the part with a small watch-glass, kept in place with a bandage.
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When a piece of plate-glass is pressed against a slightly convex lens, or a watch-glass, a series of coloured rings is formed by reflected light, with a black spot in the centre.
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This is the cornea, a hard, perfectly transparent membrane, looking much like a curved watch-glass.
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