How to Use agar in a Sentence

agar

noun

• Glass explained that the square was a plate of agar on which colonies of the minimal cell had been grown.
  — James Somers, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2022
• Oud comes from the resin of certain agar trees that are infected with a type of mold.
  — Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 Nov. 2022
• Then, Baym added agar, which is both food and habitat for microbes.
  — Rob Dunn, Wired, 6 Jan. 2022
• In a small saucepan, add almond milk, agar agar powder and sugar and whisk.
  — NBC News, 23 June 2019
• To make agar gel, whisk cold water and agar together in saucepan.
  — Molly Kimball, NOLA.com, 29 Aug. 2017
• In the lab, they are fed a standard diet consisting of a slurry of malt, corn meal, yeast, agar and syrup.
  — Tim Vernimmen, Scientific American, 2 Oct. 2019
• But the culture technique — agar in a petri dish – is technology from 1886.
  — Sandy Bauers, Philly.com, 17 May 2018
• Many of Boyd's desserts have a shiny layer on top, usually made from local produce set with agar.
  — Kathleen Purvis, charlotteobserver, 25 Apr. 2018
• Perhaps the boldest scent is the oud Ombre Nomade, which is a Middle Eastern scent taken from the agar tree, the wood from which is some of the most expensive in the world.
  — Shannon Barbour, The Cut, 26 Apr. 2018
• Martel and Pasmans took skin samples and after 3 weeks managed to culture a fungus on substrates of agar and broth.
  — Erik Stokstad, Science | AAAS, 19 July 2017
• The other day, the whole lab had just 10 routine agar plates, used in screening for bacterial infections.
  — Emma Court, Bloomberg.com, 1 Sep. 2020
• This gelatin substitute uses agar-agar, a product made from a seaweed that has gelling properties and is often used in Southeast Asian desserts.
  — Danielle Guercio, The Seattle Times, 17 May 2017
• Enlarge / Burkholderia pseudomallei grown on sheep blood agar for 24 hours.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 10 Aug. 2022
• Enlarge / Burkholderia pseudomallei grown on sheep blood agar for 24 hours.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 10 Aug. 2022
• The agar was a kind of stage on which the experiment played out, where cells divided and bacteria and viruses interacted and changed each other.
  — Eve Fairbanks, The New Republic, 5 July 2018
• Among the offerings: a large turkey leg, an alligator head and bowls of gelatinous agar that resemble consomme.
  — Amina Khan, latimes.com, 20 Apr. 2018
• Seedpods are sterilized and opened to extract the seeds, which are then sowed onto an agar media in a scientific flask for germination to take place.
  — Jennifer Billock, Smithsonian, 20 July 2017
• Seedpods are sterilized and opened to extract the seeds, which are then sowed onto an agar media in a scientific flask for germination to take place.
  — Jennifer Billock, Smithsonian, 20 July 2017
• In short, do not eat mysterious agar plates in the laboratory and do not eat anything from your mother's suspicious boyfriend.
  — Sarah Zhang, Discover Magazine, 16 Apr. 2012
• And in some cases, as Torres noticed on his warm agar, bacterial counts plummeted.
  — Max G. Levy, Wired, 30 Nov. 2021
• Each colony that ended up growing on the agar represented one original bacterial cell from the frosting.
  — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 27 July 2017
• So they can be put onto agar plates individually, giving the bacteria a better shot at growing there.
  — Sarah Vitak, Scientific American, 10 Aug. 2021
• The early pathologist added to the porcelain filter experiments with a second kind of filtration system that used a gelatin called agar to prove that no microorganisms survived the first filtration.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Mar. 2020
• The 20-by-10-centimeter device contained six cameras to observe the growth of the chickpeas from all angles as well as a nutritional gel instead of soil, which was made up mostly of water and some agar, a jellylike material.
  — Shoshanna Solomon, Fortune, 13 June 2022
• Petri's dishes would be supplied with the gelatinous agar that served as a culture medium - providing anything from amino acids, salts, carbohydrates and blood - to encourage bacterial growth.
  — Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 31 May 2013
• There will be a diorama lined with tile and containing sculptures coated with agar, a gelatinous substance that supports the growth of bacteria gathered in Manhattan’s Chinatown and Koreatown.
  — Roberta Smith, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2017
• Even artists that are used to more traditional media than bacteria on an agar plate could submit their favorite microbiologists.
  — Eva Amsen, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2022
• Goops from Fucellaria specifically are known as Danish agar.
  — Leslie Nemo, Scientific American, 29 Mar. 2021
• Alexander Fleming, who discovered the antibiotic properties of penicillin on an agar plate in 1928, created images using live organisms.
  — Meenakshi J, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Mar. 2021
• Infrared thermometers are useful in biology labs like Plank and Dombrowski’s, where sticking a conventional thermometer into an agar plate or a water bath would contaminate biological samples.
  — Lisa Grossman, WIRED, 8 Sep. 2010

Last Updated: 29 Aug 2024