Pasteur's fluid
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]After Louis Pasteur, its inventor.
Proper noun
[edit]- An artificial nutrient fluid invented for the study of alcoholic fermentation, but used also for the cultivation of bacteria and other organisms. It contains all the elements of protoplasm, and was originally made of the ash of yeast, some ammonia compound, sugar, and water.