A type of laboratory glassware with a spherical bottom and a cylindrical neck. The flask's rounded shape improves heat transfer in applications that involve boiling or distillation, but a stand or ring-shaped base is required to keep it from falling over. Not that this stops artists from drawing round-bottom flasks mysteriously standing upright on their own.
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