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tipful

tipful noun: the amount of a substance that covers the tip of something, such as a spatula.

Noun

tipful (plural tipfuls)

  1. The amount of a substance that covers the tip of something, such as a spatula.
    • Each student prepares individual samples of an unknown and a 50:50 mixture of the unknown and the suspected known. Using microspatula tipfuls of compound will avoid congestion at balances.1999, Harold Hart, Leslie E. Craine, David J. Hart, “Experiment 1: Melting-Point Determination: Purity and Identity of Crystalline Organic Compounds”, in Organic Chemistry: A Short Course...
    • If you select a solid chloride, dissolve two large spatula-tipfuls of it in 2–3 mL of acetone.2000, Gary Wulfsberg, “[Appendix A: Discovery Laboratory Experiments for Part I] Nonaqueous Reactions of Metal Ions and Compounds”, in Inorganic Chemistry, Sausalito, Calif.: University Science...

Forms of tipful

pluraltipfuls

Origin of tipful

From tip + -ful.

Questions about tipful

What does tipful mean?
Tipful means the amount of a substance that covers the tip of something, such as a spatula.
What part of speech is tipful?
Tipful is a noun.
What is the plural of tipful?
The plural of tipful is tipfuls.

Words near tipful in the dictionary

  1. tipcat
  2. tipcats
  3. Tipene
  4. tipepidine
  5. tipflation
  6. tipful
  7. tipfuls
  8. Tiph
  9. tiphiid
  10. tiphiids
  11. tipi

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