Week of 4/1

This week I helped Chad prepare some new, very expensive equipment for autoclave. I put in some metals, and Chad put in some glass to be autoclaved with the equipment. This piece of equipment will be used to grow biofilm on different coupons to experiment with how it grows on the different surfaces.


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