Fish can be in a salt or fresh water container {aquarium}.
Glass serving bottle {carafe, container} can be for wine or water.
barrel {cask}.
Water boilers with spigots {samovar} can make tea. Top holds concentrated tea in a small teapot.
Tables with hot water pans {steam table} can keep food dishes warm.
covered sewage pit {cesspool}.
Bowls {chamber pot} in bedrooms allow people not to have to leave bed to urinate or defecate.
spittoon {cuspidor}.
Metal cans {spittoon} can receive spit.
Ruled glass tubes {burette} {buret} have bottom taps, for titration. Burets measure volume. One buret drop equals 0.05 milliliter.
Tubes {pipette} can have pointed end to stick in fluid and opening at other end from which to suck, for transferring small liquid amounts. Pipettes measure volume. TC pipette lets fluid run out. TD pipette is for blowing out. Transfer pipettes and volumetric pipettes force aliquot out. Pipettes include measuring pipettes, Ostwald pipettes, micropipet, and lambda pipet. One lambda equals one microliter.
Rounded glass containers {retort} can heat chemicals.
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