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vial | American Dictionary

vial
noun[ C ]
us/ˈvɑɪ·əl, vɑɪl/
a small bottle used to hold a liquid:
The store gave away vials of their new perfume.

Examples of vial

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Larval density was not precisely controlled, and with this procedure ranged between 100 and 200 individuals per vial.
Many of these doomed larvae had crawled onto the sides of the vial rather than remaining on the food.
Helminths were removed and placed in vials containing fixing agents and were then processed, identified, and counted.
Offspring were collected and aged for 1 day in vials.
The sealed vials were time/date labeled and stored in a ziplocked bag in the family's refrigerator until collection was completed.
The vials were continuously monitored from the time the painted male was introduced through to hour 14.
For oviposition, a spoon with 2 ml of medium and coated with live yeast paste was placed in each vial.
The cages consisted of 7 shell vials, whose bottoms had been sawed off, glued together in a circle with the seventh vial in the middle.
Mating success was measured as the number of matings a male could achieve under conditions closely approximating a regular culture vial of these populations.
The seeds were allowed to sink to the bottom of glass vials (1000 ml) during gentle stirring.
On two occasions the doctor's hand had been cut while breaking glass vials, but there was no documentation linking these events to the two patients.
Termites were placed in vials filled with 80% ethanol and labelled with the section number.
This test indicated that pollen freely penetrated the cloth mesh as evidenced by pollen deposited in the vial.
Three grams (wet weight) of each sample were weighed and placed in a labelled vial.
Upon removal, the contents of each bag were transferred to labelled 20-dram plastic vials containing 70% alcohol.
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