Collocations withtube
These are words often used in combination withtube.
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boiler tube
The reactor was again shut down, and the moisture traced to a leaking boiler tube.
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brass tube
These were securely belted on to the end of the brass tube.
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breathing tube
It is a pendulum-type system with one breathing tube.
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chest tube
The total loss of blood up to the removal of the chest tube did not show significant differences among the groups.
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conical tube
The distal end of each cannula was inserted through the cap of a 10 ml conical tube and secured in situ with medical grade silicone adhesive.
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cylindrical tube
For gases other than air, a container such as a cylindrical tube must be used.
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discharge tube
Its first stage consists of a booster pump of 270 l 0s connected to both ends of the discharge tube.
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feeding tube
Seventeen of the 99 patients were admitted with a feeding tube in place and half received a new feeding tube.
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flexible tube
The water was supplied through a short flexible tube from a burette.
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fluorescent tube
A small neon fluorescent tube supplies the white bleaching light.
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flux tube
In this paper, we have explored, on the basis of laboratory experiments, the creation of a flux tube with twisted magnetic field lines.
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glass tube
Diet ingredients were placed in a sterile glass tube and mixed for 1 min in a vortex mixer.
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hollow tube
The early nervous system begins as a hollow tube that surrounds a single ventricle.
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narrow tube
This may be attributed to the larger space of the chamber used for diffusional assay in comparison to the narrow tube of the directional assay.
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neon tube
The vibrato bug is a four-wire device consisting of a neon tube and light-dependent variable resistor, packaged in a short section of black tubing.
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outer tube
In this case, the repeating unit in the outer tube has no direct interactions along the one-start helix.
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plastic tube
The sediment was then placed in a plastic tube and fixed in an iodine solution (6.25 % iodine, 31.25 % potassium and 62.5 % distilled water).
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rubber tube
Hysteresis, due to dry friction between the netting and the rubber tube, makes control of such a device rather complicated.
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sealed tube
With chlorine or bromine it forms the corresponding phosphoryl halide, and it reacts with iodine in a sealed tube to from diphosphorus tetraiodide.
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sieve tube
In leaves, companion cells help move the sugar that is produced by photosynthesis from the mesophyll tissue into the sieve tube elements.
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steel tube
The rim of the wheel is a steel tube that is split into two sections; two flexible spokes support each half of the wheel.
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top tube
Top tube ovalized for shouldering bike on transitions.
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tracheal tube
Crickets have a unique auditory system in which the two ears are connected by a tracheal tube to form a pressure difference receiver.
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tube station
Can he not take his car to the vicinity of a tube station and then take the tube to his office?
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tube tunnel
It involves the construction of a submerged tube tunnel.
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x-ray tube
The scintillation screen converts the photon energy emitted by the x-ray tube into visible light on the diodes.
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