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A shallow open dish for driving off liquid.
Also known as: Evaporating dish, Crystallising basin
An evaporating basin is drawn as a shallow open dish, its wide surface letting solvent evaporate quickly and leaving a solid behind.
Holds liquid for evaporation, its wide open surface speeding the process.
Contexts: Laboratory
Is shallow for exactly that reason, so its proportions carry its function in a way a deeper vessel's do not.
Contexts: Laboratory
A shallow curved dish, much wider than it is deep, drawn open at the top.