1 Wisconsin Heat Awareness Day will be observed on Thursday, 13 June 2013. 2  Wisconsin, along with the rest of the nation, observes Lightning Awareness Week from 23 to 29 June 2013. 3  Since Wisconsin borders on two of the Great Lakes, rip currents can pose a hazard to swimmers.
Growth of obligate anaerobes. The mixture of necessary nutrients can be used as a liquid medium, or a solidifying agent can be added. Agar agar is a natural polysaccharide produced by marine algae and is the most commonly used solidifying agent added to media (end concentration usually 1.5 % w/v). If hydrolysis of the agar is suspected, a silica gel is used as a replacement solidifying agent.
Classification of culture media used in Microbiology laboratory on the basis of consistency. Solid medium. solid medium contains agar at a concentration of 1.5-2.0% or some other, mostly inert solidifying agent. Solid medium has physical structure and allows bacteria to grow in physically informative or useful ways (e.g. as colonies or in streaks).