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Petri dish


Mold growing over time in a petri dish
Mold growing over time in a Petri dish.
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A shallow glass dish with a loose-fitting cover, used especially to produce cultures of microorganisms for research. Named after the German bacteriologist Julius R. Petrie (d. 1921).


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