How We Treated Microplastics!

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Just like any researcher this week consisted of lots of waiting time. Our experiment consisted of making sure the different types of plastics we were working with were as treated and bacteria free as possible. How this was done was by using 100% isopropyl alcohol. Then once that was added to each plastic we had the fume evaporate off the plastic just to have all the plastics on the bottom. During the week, we wanted to test if these plastics where alcohol treated properly, so in order to test for that we put each set of plastic put on a PIA, PF, and LB plates to see if anything was growing on these plastics. These plated were incubated for one day and the next day when I went back to the lab to take pictures all the plates were just the plastic itself, nothing growing on them or around them, which is a very good thing because that is exactly what we wanted. Now that we know that the plastics are treated, we can proceed on measuring plastics with the actual pseudomonas inside.

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  1. Brenda ArvizuFebruary 13, 2018 at 6:55 PM

    Hey Kassandra, I must say, I really enjoyed reading this post because it was well-said and easy to understand! It’s as if you were having a normal day-to-day conversation with me. I’m happy to know that the process of treating the plastics actually worked. I’m sure it took some time but hey, the hard work paid off! Great job and I can’t wait to see what you find! :)

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