Meaning of dipped in English

A set of copper strips dipped in mercury-filled grooves was used for both high power and low noise circuits.

A water gong is a musical gong that is dipped into a tank of water.

Clinopyroxenes and hornblendes were dipped into hydrochloric acid in a water bath to decompose any associated impurities.

The capillary often damages the embryo sac or more frequently becomes plugged when it is dipped in the agarose and pushed into the cells.

First, he dipped his mold, a rectangular wire mesh bounded by a wooden frame, into a vat of warm, watery pulp.

A samarium cobalt magnet with removable collecting wire is dipped into the labelled ferrofluid-cell mix.

Three replications of 25 seeds each were: (1) mechanically scarified; (2) dipped in boiling water for 5 s; or (3) not treated (control).

To perform this experiment, a mature caterpillar tied to a thread was dipped in boiling water.

Between 1834 and 1839, drunkenness arrests dipped slightly, but continued at a rate of roughly 13 per 1,000 residents.

Sterile swabs were dipped in sterile saline, rotated against a 10-cm2 surface area, kept and transported in a tube containing 10 ml of saline.

The entries represent both a useful reference source and essays that can be dipped into for enjoyment.

Daytime means were 15-20% lower, except at 10 m, where mean values dipped to 8%.

However, since most of the sampled section dipped south-southeast, it was not clear that this single polarity was recorded by a pre-deformational remanence.

It could certainly serve as a valuable reference text to be dipped into when the time is right.

When the dipped beam switch is opened, the expected functions occurred.

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