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The phrase "drop plate" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to refer to a plate that has been accidentally dropped or lowered suddenly. Example: As I was carrying the stack of dishes to the table, I accidentally dropped a plate and it shattered into pieces on the floor.
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Viable counts were determined by drop plate on TSA 1% NaCl.
The drop plate method has some advantages over the spread plate (SP) method.
Fig. 4 Drop plate (a) and capillary assays (b) of chemotaxis of strain CNP-8 towards different (chloro nitrophenols.
Even though it has been present in the laboratory for many years, the drop plate method has not been standardized.
The optimal combination of such factors would be useful to know when performing the drop plate method.
For bacterial enumeration, a drop plate method was used according to Chen et al. (2003) with MRS agar plates and incubating at 37 °C for 24 h.
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Samples were taken at regular time intervals and OD600 nm was measured and drop plating performed.
The method used for drop plating was that described by Herigstad et al. (2001).
Thereafter, the sample was shaken by hand, vortexed thoroughly and viable cell numbers determined by drop plating.
Waiters drop plates, data entry employees enter the wrong data, baseball players strike out, teachers spill wine on their students' essays.
Twelve 85 µL replicates of a 10% w/v PEG 4000 solution were pipetted into the same 10 types of sitting drop plates and one hanging drop crystallisation plate used above, and sealed and incubated as described above.
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