Editing Petri dish (section)

== In popular culture ==

The Petri dish is one of a small number of laboratory equipment items whose name entered popular culture.  It is often used metaphorically, e.g. for a contained community that is being studied as if they were microorganisms in a biology experiment, or an environment where original ideas and enterprises may flourish.<ref name=sing2018>Gary Singer (2018): "[https://books.google.com/books?id=PmiCDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT40 Sonder, in the City]". Quote: ''As a native New Yorker, I tend to think of this city as a giant petri dish, in which some of the greatest breakthroughs, inventions, and audacious ideas have been nurtured to fruition.'' In Angela Dews (ed.)  ''Still, in the City: Creating Peace of Mind in the Midst of Urban Chaos'', p. 40. {{isbn|978-1510732346}}</ref><ref name=slone2018>Isabel Slone (2018): "[https://fashionmagazine.com/fashion/mall-goth/ What Does the Mall Goth Nostalgia Trend Really Mean?]". Quote: ''"mall goth" was a style of dress that combined the hallmarks of punk, goth and metal subcultures and thrived like bacteria in the petri dish of the early 2000s.'' Online article in the Fashion Magazine website, May 22, 2018. Accessed on 2019-10-25.</ref><ref name="merriam-webster.com/dictionary/petridish">{{Cite web | url=https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/petri%20dish |title = Definition of petri dish}}</ref>

[[Unicode]] has a Petri dish [[emoji]], "<span style="font-size:larger;">🧫</span>", which has the [[code point]] U+1F9EB ([[HTML entity]] "&amp;#129515;" or "&amp;#x1F9EB;", [[UTF-8]] "0xF0 0x9F 0xA7 0xAB").<ref name="unicode">(2019): "[http://unicode.org/emoji/charts/emoji-list.html Emoji List, v12.1]". Webpage at the Unicode Consortium website. Accessed on 2019-10-25.</ref>