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Saline

saline

Salty, of the nature of a salt, containing a salt or salts.

Origin: L. Salinus, sal = salt


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Re: sterilization in microwave oven

... These units do not boil the lenses as is commonly believed. They all work at much lower levels of temperature than the boiling point of saline. Often around 70 to 80C. Some of them would have worked around 90C for a few minutes as I described to achieve adequate disinfection. The FDA ...

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by brzezinski2
Sun Sep 06, 2009 6:32 am
 
Forum: Microbiology
Topic: sterilization in microwave oven
Replies: 12
Views: 10184

Re: sterilization in microwave oven

... microwave ovens to sterilities contact lenses. This was an extrapolation of an old original technique of using heat like boiling the lenses in saline in their case over a stove???? This all sounds primitive but soft contact lenses that were useable had only just been invented and started to ...

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by brzezinski2
Thu Sep 03, 2009 12:01 pm
 
Forum: Microbiology
Topic: sterilization in microwave oven
Replies: 12
Views: 10184

Re: barnacle ditribution

... at what effect that the absence of one species will have on another. The normal two species population is the control. 2: D. exposure to air or saline Since I might only consider A and D ABIOTIC factors, I might assume that the amount of exposure to air/saline might be the most obvious and influential ...

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by Zach
Tue Jul 07, 2009 2:55 pm
 
Forum: Ecology
Topic: barnacle ditribution
Replies: 4
Views: 780

barnacle ditribution

... and diversity of barnacles would you consider intermittent? a. space b. intraspecies competition c. sea star predation d. exposure to air or saline e. interspecies competition 3.As barnacles, what biological role(s) do B balanoides and C. stellatus play in the biological community? a. predator ...

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by missy42
Fri May 01, 2009 6:35 pm
 
Forum: Ecology
Topic: barnacle ditribution
Replies: 4
Views: 780

Please help-Serial Dilutions

... organism. You are supposed to plate 0.1 ml to a petri dish to count 70 colonies. Draw the dilution series you would prepare, write the amounts of saline in the tubes, the amount you transfer in each step, and dilution factors of each tube you prepared. Circle the dilution you will plate 0.1 ml ...

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by viviruth
Wed Mar 11, 2009 1:01 am
 
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Please help-Serial Dilutions
Replies: 1
Views: 444
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