CHEMOSTAT


Meaning of CHEMOSTAT in English

ˈ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ at chemo- +ˌstat noun

( -s )

Etymology: chem- + -stat (as in thermostat )

: a device in which bacteria are kept uniformly suspended in a culture medium constantly renewed and maintained chemically unaltered by a continuous flow of new medium through it and which is used especially in quantitative studies of mutation rates

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