Definition of Bell glass

1. Noun. A bell-shaped glass cover used to protect and display delicate objects or to cover scientific apparatus or to contain gases.

Exact synonyms: Bell Jar
Generic synonyms: Protection, Protective Cover, Protective Covering

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bell Glass

bell book
bell boy
bell buoy
bell buoys
bell captain
bell captains
bell cot
bell cote
bell curve
bell curves
bell deck
bell founder
bell foundry
bell gable
bell heather
bell jar
bell jars
bell magpie
bell metal
bell morel
bell out
bell pepper
bell peppers
bell push
bell ringer
bell ringers
bell ringing
bell rope

Literary usage of Bell glass

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Compendium of the Course of Chemical Instruction in the Medical Department by Robert Hare (1836)
"Lime water being introduced in sufficient quantity into the inverted bell glass, another smaller bell glass, C, is supported within it as represented in the ..."

2. Elements of Chemistry: For the Use of Colleges, Academies, and Schools by Victor Regnault (1853)
"To do this, we introduce into the same bell-glass, over mercury, the well-known volumes of ... This measure is poured into the bell-glass to be divided, ..."

3. Pharmaceutical Journal by Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (1854)
"When phosphorus was introduced into a bell-glass, moistened internally and closed ... The bell-glass was then surrounded with hot water, so as to raise the ..."

4. Journal of the Rhode Island Institute of Instruction by Rhode Island Institute of Instruction, Henry Barnard (1849)
"Bell-glass graduated Specific Gravity Scales ; 6 inch Copper Globe ; 24 inch fine ... 4 00 Graduated Bell-Glass as above, 100 cubic inches, with Cap, Cock, ..."

5. A Manual of Chemistry: Containing the Principal Facts of the Science by William Thomas Brande, William James MacNeven (1821)
"... the gases pass into the bell-glass/standing over mercury, e is a tube of safety, to allow for sudden expansion or contraction ; there being in its lower ..."

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