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This was done with a single drop of food coloring containing FD&C Red 3 and Red 40. Be careful not to disturb the plate and cause the drop to run until it is completely absorbed into the media.  
 
This was done with a single drop of food coloring containing FD&C Red 3 and Red 40. Be careful not to disturb the plate and cause the drop to run until it is completely absorbed into the media.  
  
[[File:Reddropagarose.jpg|200px|thumb|Starting Drop]]
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[[File:Reddropagarose.jpg|200px|thumb|Red Food Coloring, Starting Drop]]
  
[[File:reddropdiffusion2.jpg|200px|thumb|One Hour Later]]
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<!--[[File:reddropdiffusion2.jpg|200px|thumb|Red Food Coloring, One Hour Later]]
  
[[File:reddropdiffusion3.jpg|200px|thumb|Two and a half hours later]]
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[[File:reddropdiffusion3.jpg|200px|thumb|Red Food Coloring, Two and a half hours later]]-->
  
 
After sitting overnight the liquid was completely absorbed into the media and the plate can be inverted.  
 
After sitting overnight the liquid was completely absorbed into the media and the plate can be inverted.  
  
[[File:Reddropdiffusion4.jpg|200px|thumb|One day later, inverted]]
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[[File:Reddropdiffusion4.jpg|200px|thumb|Red Food Coloring, One day later, inverted]]
  
[[File:reddropdiffusion5.jpg|200px|thumb|Two days later, inverted]]
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[[File:reddropdiffusion5.jpg|200px|thumb|Red Food Coloring, Two days later, inverted]]
  
 
=Loading Dye=
 
=Loading Dye=

Revision as of 07:52, 21 July 2018

A simple demonstration of diffusion through agar media to visually illustrate that viruses diffuse through plate media.

Red Food Coloring

This was done with a single drop of food coloring containing FD&C Red 3 and Red 40. Be careful not to disturb the plate and cause the drop to run until it is completely absorbed into the media.

Red Food Coloring, Starting Drop


After sitting overnight the liquid was completely absorbed into the media and the plate can be inverted.

Red Food Coloring, One day later, inverted
Red Food Coloring, Two days later, inverted

Loading Dye

This was done with 5 ul of gel loading dye (normally used for electrophoresis). Be careful not to disturb the plate and cause the drop to run until it is completely absorbed into the media. The loading dye quickly became less clear than the food coloring.

Two days later, inverted

Notes

Carbon black has a particle size closer to that of a virus and might be more appropriate to model viral particle diffusion.

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