gas washing bottle
- noun
- Specialized
:
botella de lavado de gas
- Remember to check that the gas washing bottle contains enough liquid before starting the experiment.
Examples
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Hydrogen chloride gas is often introduced into solution through a gas washing bottle.
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The chemist used a gas washing bottle to purify the air before passing it into the reaction vessel.
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The gas washing bottle is essential for this experiment.
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Can you pass me the gas washing bottle?
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The chemist used a gas washing bottle to ensure that the gas was properly dissolved in the liquid.
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Before conducting the reaction, the scientist checked the gas washing bottle for any leaks.
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A gas washing bottle is typically used in labs to saturate solutions with gases like oxygen.
Synonyms
A lab bottle that passes gas through a liquid to clean the gas or add gas to the liquid
How Large
- Specialized
1
7.2
- Specialized
Surface Forms
Morphology
The constituents 'gas' and 'bottle' clearly signal a container related to gas, but the use of 'washing' here is specialized (meaning scrubbing or bubbling gas through a liquid) rather than the everyday sense of cleaning. A B1 learner who knows the words might guess it is a bottle used with gas, but would likely not predict the exact laboratory procedure or purpose without prior exposure, so the phrase is only partially transparent.
Etymology
Gas washing bottle comes from the idea of 'washing' a gas. In the lab, the gas is bubbled through a liquid in the washing bottle so the liquid takes out dirt or unwanted parts, or adds something to the gas, like water washing clothes. That's why the name means 'a bottle used to clean or treat a gas by bubbling it through a liquid'.