chemistry lab
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2.9
- noun
- /ˈkɛmɪstri læb/
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laboratorio de química
- Our chemistry lab has a variety of tools for both teaching and research.
Number one was chemistry lab during the summer in college.
- Number one was chemistry lab during the summer in college.
Examples
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Would you happen to know where the chemistry lab is?
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There's not enough liquid left in the bottle to have it analyzed by a chemistry lab.
Fiction book (1990) -
Do you have a chemistry lab on Saturday, too?
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But I have a chemistry lab here, twice a week.
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The night I got caught, I saw someone climbing in the window of the chemistry lab.
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The chemistry lab is on the second level, Dr. Sheppard.
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Today, years later, there are found classrooms, a chemistry lab with a microscope, running water, a library, ten teachers, and 150 students.
Fiction book (1994) -
The researchers then froze the filters and flew them to the chemistry lab in Sweden for analysis using gas chromatography and mass spectrometry.
Academic text (1996) -
In 1907, Leo Hendrik Baekeland was working in his private chemistry lab at his estate in Yonkers, N.Y.
Academic text (2007) -
He was always conscious of a sweet, fruity smell, like that of the alcohol-acetone concoction they used to clean dirty glassware in the chemistry lab.
Fiction book (1990)
Synonyms
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1.6
A room or building where people do science experiments
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3.0
A room or building where scientists do experiments and tests
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2.8
A room in a school or research building where people do experiments
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2.3
A room where students do chemistry experiments at school or college
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3.2
A room or building where people do experiments, research, and teach science
A room for doing experiments with chemicals for teaching or research
How Advanced
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a room or facility for chemistry experiments' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'chemistry' (the academic discipline) with 'lab' (a facility for experiments). This noun-noun compound follows a common and cross-linguistically familiar composition pattern, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Chemistry lab joins the words chemistry and lab, where 'lab' is short for 'laboratory', a place for science work. Picture a room with benches, glass bottles and burners, and that image explains why the phrase means 'a room for doing chemical experiments'.