Petri Dish

Named after the German Bacteriologist Julius Richard Petri, a Petri dish is an important lab glassware used in a number of areas. It is a circular/cylindrical shallow glass or plastic dish used by scientists, biologists and researchers to culture bacterial, animal, plant, or fungus cells and other microorganisms. These dishes are made from chemical, heat and expansion resistant glass.

These dishes are used for day-to-day laboratory practices including drying fluids in an oven and carrying and storing samples. Petri dishes are often designed with rings on the lid and base allowing them to be stacked so that they do not slide off of one another. Multiple dishes are also sometimes incorporated into one plastic container to create what is known as a "multi-well plate".

Fused silica, borosilicate glass, and quartz glass are some of the glasses used for making petri dishes.

Use of Petri Dish
Petri dishes are simple lab glassware finding a large number of uses in different industries, some of the important industries are:

• Industrial Chemicals
• Pharmaceuticals
• Neutraceuticals
• Herbal Medicines
• Agriculture
• Petrochemicals
• Textiles
• Educational Laboratories
• Clinical Laboratories
• Scientific Research