Petri dish

shallow dish on which biological cultures may be grown and/or viewed
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Petri dish

Summary

Petri dish ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (461 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • Petri dish is credited with the discovery of Julius Richard Petri[2].
  • Petri dish's image is recorded as Agar plates different types.jpg[3].
  • Julius Richard Petri is named after Petri dish[4].
  • Petri dish's subclass of is recorded as laboratory equipment[5].
  • Petri dish's subclass of is recorded as laboratory glassware[6].
  • Petri dish's Commons category is recorded as Petri dishes[7].
  • Petri dish's pronunciation audio is recorded as De-Petrischale.ogg[8].
  • Petri dish's Unicode character is recorded as 🧫[9].
  • Petri dish's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1880-00-00T00:00:00Z[10].
  • Petri dish's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0b_my[11].
  • Petri dish's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Petri dishes[12].
  • Petri dish's Commons gallery is recorded as Petri dish[13].
  • Petri dish's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0050621[14].
  • Petri dish's exact match is recorded as http://wordnet-rdf.princeton.edu/wn30/03920288-n[15].
  • Petri dish's Quora topic ID is recorded as Petri-Dish[16].
  • Petri dish's Elhuyar ZTH ID is recorded as 095560[17].
  • Petri dish's Store medisinske leksikon ID is recorded as petriskål[18].
  • Petri dish's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 146763376[19].
  • Petri dish's Nomenclature for Museum Cataloging is recorded as 8600[20].
  • Petri dish's Lex ID is recorded as petriskål[21].
  • Petri dish's KBpedia ID is recorded as PetriDish[22].
  • Petri dish's WordNet 3.1 Synset ID is recorded as 03926410-n[23].
  • Petri dish's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C146763376[24].
  • Petri dish's ScienceDirect topic ID is recorded as nursing-and-health-professions/petri-dish[25].
  • Petri dish's ScienceDirect topic ID is recorded as engineering/petri-dish[26].

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Works and Contributions

Petri dish is credited with the discovery of Julius Richard Petri[2].

Why It Matters

Petri dish ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (461 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] It is known by 6 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [2] . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] . sciencedirect.com. sciencedirect.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [11] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  11. [12] . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] . Quora. wikidata.org.
  16. [17] . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] . Great Norwegian Encyclopedia. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] . wikidata.org.
  20. [21] . wikidata.org.
  21. [22] . KBpedia. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  22. [23] . wikidata.org.
  23. [24] . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  24. [25] . wikidata.org.
  25. [26] . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [27] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [28] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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