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Why is it necessary to excessively rinse the smear with water in experiment identifying bacteria using gram stain?
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∙ 12y ago
smear should be rinsed with distill water so that all the small particles attach to the smear will washed away such as some time the crystals of dye are attached to the smear which give the illusion of microbial cell some time, distill water is used because it is free from other microbial cell and ions which can harm the smear.
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yea
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Minimum number of bacteria to be visible?
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In a experiment on bacteria using different amount of antibiotic is an example of?
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