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Pestle

pestle

An instrument in the shape of a rod with one rounded and weighted extremity, used for bruising, breaking, grinding, and mixing substances in a mortar.

Origin: L. Pistillum, fr. Pinso, or piso, to pound


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The Fiber Disease

... air-dried under low intensity sunshine (25°C) for one week, and then oven dried at 40°C for 48 h. Dried leaves were crushed with a morter and a pestle and ground to a fine powder with a manual blender. The powdered samples were freezedried at -54°C for 48 h to ensure complete removal of water. ...

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by Nadas Moksha
Sat Nov 04, 2006 7:00 am
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: The Fiber Disease
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CTAB buffer

using 0.25g of leave tissue grind in mortar and pestle with liqiud nitrogen. what is the meaning of bead mill is a mixer like coffee mixer?

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by sara
Fri Apr 29, 2005 1:42 pm
 
Forum: Molecular Biology
Topic: CTAB buffer
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CTAB buffer

... with no lost of yield / quality, again depends on the plant and the extraction procedure. How do you grind your material? Liquid nitrogen / motar pestle ? Bead mill? ?

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by DevGrp
Fri Apr 29, 2005 1:04 pm
 
Forum: Molecular Biology
Topic: CTAB buffer
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Views: 3845


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