petri dish
a shallow, circular, glass or plastic dish with a loose-fitting cover over the top and sides, used for culturing bacteria and other microorganisms.
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How to use petri dish in a sentence
Shiwakoti experimented with different exit scenarios using square petri dishes that had exits located in the middle of a side and in the corner.
Want to Get Out Alive? Follow the Ants - Issue 95: Escape | Conor Myhrvold | January 28, 2021 | NautilusBefore we could grow cultures in petri dishes and mix compounds in test tubes, Mother Nature was the world’s pharmacy.
Four plants that are scientifically proven to be therapeutic | Sandra Gutierrez G. | January 25, 2021 | Popular-ScienceWhile lab-grown meat was busy trying to find its way out of the petri dish, plant-based meat substitutes were undergoing a revolution.
Your first lab-grown burger is coming soon—and it’ll be “blended” | Katie McLean | December 18, 2020 | MIT Technology ReviewShe went back to her makeshift lab, placed a piece of udder in a petri dish, doused it with amino acids, vitamins, minerals, and salts, and carefully deposited it in an incubator.
Startups are racing to reproduce breast milk in the lab | Katie McLean | December 18, 2020 | MIT Technology ReviewForty mosquitoes of each species were released into petri dishes coated in the original deltamethrin dust spray, and another 40 into a dish covered in the new form of the insecticide.
Heating deltamethrin may help it kill pesticide-resistant mosquitoes | Maria Temming | October 19, 2020 | Science News
It remains the receptive petri dish to any and all sorts of colonies of humanity that finally managed to find one another.
Five Subreddits You May Have Missed, and Probably Still Should Give a Miss | Kelly Williams Brown | April 5, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST“Roger basically had a petri dish to see what worked on cable,” Griffin says.
Banter With The Beast: MSNBC’s Head Honcho Phil Griffin on Admiring Roger Ailes and More | Lloyd Grove | January 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTMy immune system was shot; my body had become a petri dish for every new virus of the week.
The Holy Land has become a petri dish for hate, and separating the Israelis and the Palestinians has become nearly impossible.
But Lebanon was a tiny country where the fighting could be contained like a plague in a petri dish.
petri dish or cleaned photographic plates for sputum examination.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis | James Campbell ToddPour each tube into a separate petri dish and allow it to solidify.
The Elements of Bacteriological Technique | John William Henry EyreTransfer each slice of egg by means of a pair of sterilised forceps to a petri dish or large capsule.
The Elements of Bacteriological Technique | John William Henry EyreLiquefy a tube of gelatine (or agar) by heat, pour it into a petri dish, and allow it to solidify.
The Elements of Bacteriological Technique | John William Henry EyreAs soon as dry, transfer the cover-slip films to the ventilated petri dish by means of sterile forceps.
The Elements of Bacteriological Technique | John William Henry Eyre
British Dictionary definitions for Petri dish
/ (ˈpɛtrɪ) /
a shallow circular flat-bottomed dish, often with a fitting cover, used in laboratories, esp for producing cultures of microorganisms
Origin of Petri dish
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Scientific definitions for petri dish
[ pē′trē ]
A shallow, circular dish with a loose cover, usually made of transparent glass or plastic and used to grow cultures of microorganisms. The petri dish is named after German bacteriologist Julius Richard Petri (1852-1921).
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