In a sentence
Six example sentences with agar, each labelled with its topic.
Each student poured warm agar into a dish, let it set, and streaked a loop of pond water across it.
Science
The lab grew the throat swab on agar overnight, and by morning pale colonies dotted the amber surface.
Medicine
Samples from the estuary were spread on agar plates to count how many bacteria survived the summer heat.
Environment
Vegan chefs set panna cotta with agar, the same seaweed jelly that laboratories pour into petri dishes.
Cooking
Koch's lab adopted agar in the 1880s after a colleague's wife suggested the jelly she used for her puddings.
History
The biotech startup's first product was a pre-poured agar plate that stayed sterile for months on a shelf.
Startups
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