{"id":252,"date":"2011-02-25T15:49:06","date_gmt":"2011-02-25T15:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tmcldev.wpengine.com\/mcgovern\/2011\/02\/25\/thingamajig-3\/"},"modified":"2019-08-30T18:02:07","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T18:02:07","slug":"thingamajig-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.tmc.edu\/mcgovern\/2011\/02\/25\/thingamajig-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Thingamajig"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>by Alethea Drexler, archives assistant<\/strong><br \/>\nWe&#8217;re back with the answer to last week&#8217;s Thingamajig!<br \/>\nHere it is, to refresh your memory:<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_506\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-506\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/library.tmc.edu\/mcgovern\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/02\/matney-tempgrad-1-7503.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-506\" title=\"Matney tempgrad 1 750\" src=\"http:\/\/library.tmc.edu\/mcgovern\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/02\/matney-tempgrad-1-7503.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.tmc.edu\/mcgovern\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/02\/matney-tempgrad-1-7503.jpg 750w, https:\/\/library.tmc.edu\/mcgovern\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/02\/matney-tempgrad-1-7503-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-506\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">It&#039;s baaaaaack!<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nWe got several suggestions about what this might be, including a snail race track (complete with &#8220;escargot&#8221;&#8211;car go&#8211;pun), a snake warmer, and, more seriously, a giant electrophoresis apparatus.<br \/>\nActually, the snake warmer guess wasn&#8217;t too far wrong.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s a temperature gradient plate for culturing microorganisms.\u00a0 A short summary can be read <a href=\"http:\/\/jb.asm.org\/cgi\/content\/short\/83\/3\/463\">here<\/a>[1].<br \/>\nThe mechanism at the closed end is a heating element.\u00a0 Heat is transferred along the plate&#8217;s aluminum body, dissipating as it gets further away from the heat source.\u00a0 Researchers can use this to determine the maximum and minimum temperatures a given microorganism can tolerate, because the microorganism won&#8217;t grow where it&#8217;s too hot (nearest the heat source) or too cold (furthest from the heat source).<br \/>\n[1] J Bacteriol. 1962 March; 83(3): 463-469<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Alethea Drexler, archives assistant We&#8217;re back with the answer to last week&#8217;s Thingamajig! Here it is, to refresh your memory: We got several suggestions about what this might be, including a snail race track (complete with &#8220;escargot&#8221;&#8211;car go&#8211;pun), a snake warmer, and, more seriously, a giant electrophoresis apparatus. Actually, the snake warmer guess wasn&#8217;t [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/library.tmc.edu\/mcgovern\/2011\/02\/25\/thingamajig-3\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artifacts","category-thingamajig"],"authors":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.tmc.edu\/mcgovern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.tmc.edu\/mcgovern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.tmc.edu\/mcgovern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.tmc.edu\/mcgovern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.tmc.edu\/mcgovern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/library.tmc.edu\/mcgovern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.tmc.edu\/mcgovern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.tmc.edu\/mcgovern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.tmc.edu\/mcgovern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}