Talk:Petri dish

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Juices from the Gastric Glands

Gastric glands are located just outside the lining of the stomach. Gastric glands produce and emit gastric juices. These juices include enzymes, rennin, pepsin, and hydrolic acid. Pepsin starts protein digestion. Rennin curdles milk and keeps proteins from passing through the digestive tract to quickly. Hydrolic acid provides the environment for pepsin. Also stomach acids produced by the gastric glands breaks down foods.

--209.179.56.207 03:10, 9 Jun 2004 (UTC)wolfie:)

[edit] Petri

A Petri dish is a shallow glass or plastic cylindrical dish that biologists use to culture microbes. It was named after the German bacteriologist Mr.Petri (1785-1925) who invented it in 1877 when working as an assistant to Richard Koch.

This should say "Robert" Koch - not Richard. 172.184.43.66 06:04, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

Recent vandalism. Been reverted. Femto 12:54, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] choice of pictures

although both of the pictures included are visuably appealing, i'm not sure that they are encyclopedaic enough, as neither clearly shows the standard laboratory usage of petri dishes (especially the one on the left) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.112.109.133 (talk • contribs) .

Removed the bioluminescence image, which is licensed non-commercial-use-only anyway. Femto 13:28, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Although the current picture is nice, it could be confusing for someone who doesn't know what a Petri dish is. If you ask me, I'll tell you that by looking a the picture it looks like circular floating extraterrestrial beings. 165.123.140.215 10:01, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

Replaced with another one that was available from Wikimedia Commons. Femto 14:22, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Syracuse dish

Anyone know what a Syracuse dish is? Is it the same as a petri dish? See these Google results [1]. -newkai t-c 22:34, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

According to Merriam-Webster: Syracuse watch glass, Syracuse dish: a small circular flat-bottomed dish of thick glass with a shallow depression used in biology (as for staining, culturing, and various phases of microtechnic).

Here's a decent photo from a supplier [2]. Looks quite different, so here's a new stub: Syracuse dish. Femto 15:35, 11 February 2007 (UTC)