(chemistry, analytical chemistry) A piece of laboratory equipment used to mix the contents of small tubes of liquids by means of rapid oscillation.

plural of vortex mixer

A large-scale cyclone located in the middle and upper troposphere and stratosphere that surround the polar highs and lie in the wake of the polar front.

(chemistry, historical) A hypothetical ring-shaped mass of elementary matter in continuous vortical motion, once regarded as the typical form and structure of the chemical atom.

plural of vortex atom

plural of quantized vortex

plural of polar vortex

plural of vortex ring

A toroidal vortex in a fluid or gas, i.e. a region where the fluid mostly spins around an imaginary axis line that forms a closed loop.

plural of vile vortex