Sentences with phrase «dishes of agar»

The paywalled study, Deposition of Bacteria and Bacterial Spores by Bathroom Hot - Air Hand Dryers, describes how the researchers put Petri dishes of agar under hot air dryers.

Decoding a message first required pressing the paper into a dish of agar; this is a gelatinous substance in which bacteria easily grow.

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Agar was added to fill all parts of the dish except for the areas blocked by the bricks.

There are also petri dishes filled with dark - red sheep's blood agar, streaked with the lacy white colonies of plague.

So, to prepare his petri dishes, my son boiled water, turned off the heat, set the bottle of agar in the pot, and waited for it to melt.

Specifically, Lustig's films are read with profit as love letters to The Deuce of pre-Giuliani Times Square — the Harem and the Empire and the Liberty and theatres like them the petri dish, their audiences the agar from which fascinating cultures sprouted up around The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and Tom Savini, Pam Grier and Fred Williamson, triple - X and splatter.

They learned how to set up an agar plate (agar is a gelatinous substance made from red algae used to grow stuff in a petri dish) and create a colony of bacteria.

We humans are also different from bacteria in that we have efficient means of transporting and distributing resources also known as markets, we can innovate and find new ways of doing things, and though we are in a petri dish in the sense that yes the world is finite, it is an awfully big petri dish (despite our admittedly large population) and we are not confined to consuming Agar.