What I need is the English name of it, please :)

pippette (laboratory thing)  or  eye dropper

Pippette! That's the name! Same as in Danish then, but I thought it seemed too easy L 

Thanks!

Or if it is pretty large, a baster.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B5%D8%A9-pipette.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pasteur_Pipets.jpg

Was going to say roast/turkey baster..

I thought it was a baster, at first glace.  The basters I've seen usually have the larger, more bulbous rubber squeeze bits at the end, while all the pipettes I've seen have squeeze-y parts that just extend from the glass portion as a straight tube, without bulging.  But the basters also have had a greater circumference for the tube, whereas the pictured item looks much more like a glass dropper pipette, below the bulb.  So I have an impulse to be nonsensically creative and call it a baster pipette.

But these are superficial design aspects which may vary from place to place... and Cage's frame of reference is not the broadest in the world.  :lol:

Is that something that Dexter uses?

Hehe well yes. Although his looks a little different, longer, but still this type. I was going partly from memory of his and partly from memory of one I had myself once. So it's a mix.

And definitely not  a baster.. That would be a tad too big L But as there's no size references in the first pic, it just COULD have been ;)

AARGH This glass is driving me batty.. it won't LOOK like glass.. or well it will.. but not all the time...

The spelling in English is "pipette". (only 1 p)

If it's a chemical dropper, that's what it is. Pipette is a more technical term. Non-technical people would day "a dropper".

Thanks. One p in Dansih too, so I reckoned it was a typo :)

Since the word pipette is known in English and it matches the Danish name of the thing, I will keep it :) But it's good to know any other names for it as well :D

These days you wouldn't use a dropper to deposite a drop of blood on a slide.  You would use a capillary tube, a thin, most likely heparinized, glass tube.  Dip the end into your solution or blood, cap the open end with your finger and then apply a tiny drop to your slide or substrate.  Takes practice to get the drop just the right size.

Looks like an eye dropper to me ;). A pipette is more of a glass tube with no bulb.

Laurie

"Dropper" is proably more commonly understood, but "Pipette" is also fine.

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Heh tell that to Dexter ;)

Gee, I always thought that it was a non-sexual impregnation device!

I think Pippet was also the name of the dog in the first Jaws film that the shark got.

Pipettes as I was thinking of them. Some also come with bulbs tho...like Trekkie's original image ;).

Laurie

Laurie, don't get me started on what I can find in my own lab. LOL.

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As long as you don't keep a box of blood slides along with them, I'm not concerned ;)

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Especially if its in the kitchen or near the barbecue.

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Wasn't trying to tell ya what's in ur lab hborre ;). Just what came to mind when I thought of pipette and after a short search on the web...

Laurie