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Dewar flask, Dewar vessel, Dewar n. A double-walled glass vessel for holding liquid air, liquid nitrogen, etc., having the space between the walls exhausted so as to prevent conduction of heat, and sometimes having the glass silvered to prevent absorption of radiant heat; called also, according to the particular shape, Dewar bulb, Dewar tube, etc.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Dewar flask" Quotes from Famous Books

... a whisky firm, craved an order from a small Highland innkeeper. "Come, Donald," he said, "you must give me an order this time." "You will be getting no order from me, for your whisky is no good whatever. Dewar of Perth has got sixteen medals for his whisky; it is so good to drink, and makes people drunk so nice and quiet. But your firm never got a single medal for filling folk fou." The granting of medals for quiet and comely intoxication is ...

— Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland • Daniel Turner Holmes

... launched a counter attack against F and G barricades without success, and again at about midnight a second counter attack also failed. Our casualties, excluding those of the attached grenadiers, were two officers wounded, Lieut. M'Culloch and Lieut. Dewar. Other ranks, eleven ...

— The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918 • F.L. Morrison

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