Re: Avoiding gelatine ---agar as an alternative? (fwd)

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From: Greg Schmitz (gws1@columbia.edu)
Date: 07/18/02-08:36:20 PM Z

I may be wrong, but I seem to recall a similar thread sometime ago.
You might want to check the archives.

-greg schmitz <gws1@columbia.edu>

On Thu, 18 Jul 2002 Ender100@aol.com wrote:

> isn't agar agar what they used to (maybe still do) use in petri dishes to
> grow cultures?
>
>
> In a message dated 7/18/02 9:29:06 PM, holtsg@duke.usask.ca writes:
>
> <<
> Hi Gord,
> Could you please post this to the list on my behalf:
>
> >Well one topic I don't think I've ever seen come up is discussion
> >on agar (also known as agar-agar). It's a gelatin-like substance
> >made from certain types of seaweed (laver, etc.--NO animal)

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