- Tue May 19, 2009 5:40 am
#10778
- In TC everything needs to be sterilized. If there's only 1 tiny bacteria on the seed, it'll grow like crazy on TC medium.
- 10% bleach is a volume %. This means, on 100 mL solution, 10 mL will be pure bleach.
The bleach i buy in the store is 15%. To go from this to 10%, you'll have to add distilled water. The volume of distilled water to be added is half the volume of the 15% solution. Example: in 200 mL 15% bleach, you'll have to add 100 mL distilled water. Then you'll have 300 mL 10%.
- Hydrogen Peroxide is in dutch known as Oxygen Water. The chemical formula is H2O2.
It should be readily available at your local drugstore.
Niels.
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