Definition of chemostat in English:
chemostat
noun ˈkɛmə(ʊ)statˈkiːmə(ʊ)statˈkēmōˌstat
A system in which the chemical composition is kept at a controlled level, especially for the culture of microorganisms.
Example sentencesExamples
- For example, one such bottleneck may occur during reinoculation of a chemostat, when tubes are changed.
- However, even bacteria confined to chemostats can subvert our plans for them, inventing new niches instead of refining methods for exploiting those we had defined.
- In some respects our study mirrors results from earlier studies of chemostats and other protocols of high-density passage with microbes.
- Temperature is controlled by immersing the chemostat growth chamber in a 37° water bath.
- Imagine a chemostat inoculated with a single clone.