Agar Diffusion

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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 compltely absorbed into the media.

Starting Drop
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Two and a half hours later

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

20 hours 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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