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Petri Dish Emoji 🧫

What 🧫 means

The side profile of a circular shallow dish revealing a pinkish liquid with a few blue dispersing drops of color or chemical.

The 🧫 Petri Dish emoji represents the biology division of science. It signifies culturing, incubation, and in simpler terms, growing micro-organisms. Hence, this emoji could symbolize a conducive environment.

How and when to use it

Use 🧫 while referring to a 'conducive environment' in any context; either for bacteria or humans (in different tones, of course). Like, "You cannot heal in the same environment that destroyed you 🧫" or "Growth is inevitable once you open up to it 🧫".
You can also use 🧫 as an indication of bacteria as well. Similarly, this works even if the scenario is a bacteria-based news post, educational post, or even a hilarious meme.
Since 🧫 would be used in cultures, it can also be used in other scientific aspects of antidotes, vaccines, and the like.
🧫 is a compulsory emoji in frameworks that are specifically about biology or culturing. This works even for generic science-based content.
A little non-scientific, and more general, 🧫 can be used to refer to anything that is artificially grown, as the emoji represents in vitro.

Other Names

🧫 Culture Broth
🧫 Culture Dish
🧫 Culturing
🧫 Culture Medium
🧫 Biology Lab Equipment
🧫 In Vitro
🧫 Culture Medium
🧫 Culture Fluid

The lowdown

Category: Objects › science
Codepoints: U+1F9EB
Emoji version: Emoji 11.0
Shortcodes: :petri_dish:
Keywords: bacteria, biologist, biology, culture, dish, lab, petri

How it looks across platforms

Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.