Pyrex

[ pahy-reks ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

Trademark.

a brand name for any of a class of heat- and chemical-resistant glassware products of varying composition used for cooking.

Pyrex

/ ˈpaɪrɛks /

noun

1. any of a variety of borosilicate glasses that have low coefficients of expansion, making them suitable for heat-resistant glassware used in cookery and chemical apparatus
2. ( as modifier )
  a Pyrex dish

Season the venison with salt and pepper and put it into a nonreactive bowl such as a Pyrex dish.

To cleanse our palettes, we sniffed chopped watermelon, cucumber and canned corn held in Pyrex containers throughout the lab.

Break out the Pyrex—the casserole, America's classic hard-times dish, is hot again.

It has been found that it imparts a violet red tint to the pyrex tubing after the latter has been used for a few combustions.

Butter a square Pyrex pan and put in the graham-cracker dust to make,a crust.

Over the whole pour some melted butter, cover the casserole, (or pyrex plate) and put it in the oven with a low fire.

The two bounders stood there, encased in heat-resistant pyrex pants, expecting the natives to make things hot for them.

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