23) Lab Essentials : Petri Plates

Microbiology Lab Essentials :

✓Glasswares :

23) Petriplates :

Its a Shallow dish of thin glass or plastic with a loose cover used especially for cultures in bacteriology.

Petridish is use to culture the Micro-Organisms (Bacteria).

✓ Standard Size Of Petriplate :

dish capacity = 115 mL

dish diameter = 100 mm

size 100 mm × 15 mm

A Petri dish (Petri plate) is a shallow cylindrical glass lidded dish that is typically used to culture microorganisms(agar plates).

This helps prevent the contamination of the new culture.

Petri plates are mostly with diameters ranging from 30 to 200 mm , and a height to diameter ratio ranging from 1:10 to 1:4

Squarish versions are also available.