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Petri dish emoji

🧫 Petri dish

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🧫 Emoji meaning

Study, biology, microorganisms, observation, or examination.

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🧫 Meaning

Biology is my favorite subject or “I have a bacterial infection”. Flat, round, transparent dish with lid, mostly used in chemistry, biology or medicine. For the cultivation of microorganisms or cell cultures.

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Commonly confused with

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Petri dish

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Alembic vs petri dish; both lab glassware representing experiments.

Petri dish

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Petri dish vs DNA; both used in biology and genetics contexts.

Emoji History

Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexicon

First included

The emoji “Petri dish” was approved as part of Unicode 11.0 in 2018 and added to Emoji 11.0 .

In the release of Emoji 16.0 and Unicode 16.0 in 2024 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ dish + petri

Keywords removed

- petri dish

In the release of Emoji 11.0 and Unicode 11.0 in 2018 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ bacteria + biologist + biology + culture + lab + petri dish

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