A Petri dish is a round dish which is shallow in nature with a transparent lid that is used for a variety of purposes in the lab.

These dishes being plastic keeps them affordable, while still capable of handling temperatures up to 70 degrees C. This unfortunately makes unable to be sterilized by heat, however.

Perhaps the most common use is to hold a growth medium, such as agar, in which cells can be cultured. Most often among these are fungi, mosses and most famously, bacteria.

Named after their inventor Julius Richard Petri – a German biologist, no biologists lab would be complete without them.

Plastic Petri Dish Specifications:

– Made of Polystyrene Plastic
– Safe for up to 70 Deg C
– Plastic Petri Culture Dish

We also carry glass Petri dishes.

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