1 A do-it-yourself approach for basic basement steps starts around $250-$350 for materials, and takes about 3-4 hours. 2  That's with standard lumber, such as pine; costs can go much higher with more expensive wood, such as oak.
Pour enough melted agar into each sterile plastic petri dish to cover the bottom - about 1/8 to 1/4 deep. Replace the lid immediately. Place agar plates on a counter top to cool and set. Agar medium will set like stiff gelatin at room temperature. The agar medium is now ready for storage or use.
For example, agar displays a hysteresis in its melting and freezing temperatures. It melts at 85 Â°C (185 Â°F) and solidifies from 31 Â°C to 40 Â°C (89.6 Â°F to 104 Â°F).reezing, or solidification, is a phase transition in which a liquid turns into a solid when its temperature is lowered below its freezing point. For most substances, the melting and freezing points are the same temperature; however, certain substances possess differing solidâliquid transition temperatures.