laboratory

UK /ləˈbɒɹətɹi/ US /ˈlæb(ə)ɹəˌtɔɹi/
noun 2

Definitions

noun

1

A room, building or institution equipped for scientific research, experimentation or analysis.

2

A place where chemicals, drugs or microbes are prepared or manufactured.

Again she read the passage that had riveted her attention; and, rising from her seat, carried the still open volume, and laid it on a slab by the furnace in the laboratory: it was a celebrated treatise on poisons, written in the fifteenth century.

[Isaac Newton] was obsessed with alchemy. He spent hours copying alchemical recipes and trying to replicate them in his laboratory. He believed that the Bible contained numerological codes.

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