Crossword-Solution: INOCULUM 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 12

And he says, "Although anecdotal accounts of success due to the use of particular inoculum are not unusual in the popular media, we have yet to come across unqualified accounts of successes in the refereed scientific and technical literature." I use a variation of mass inoculation when making compost.

The doctors were almost ready to go back down, loaded with enough inoculum and syringes to equip themselves and a dozen field workers when Jack suddenly stopped what he was doing and cocked an ear toward the entrance lock.

Flame the plugs, open the tubes, sterilise the platinum needle and charge it with the inoculum as in the previous cultivations.

After replugging, grasp the tube near its mouth by the thumb and first finger of the right hand, and with an even circular movement of the whole arm, diffuse the inoculum throughout the medium; avoid jerky movements, as these cause bubbles of air to form in the medium.

When quite cold raise the bottom of plate 1, revert it and deposit a drop of the inoculum (whether a fluid culture or an emulsion from solid culture) upon the surface of the gelatine with a platinum loop--close to one side of the plate; replace the bottom half of the Petri dish in its cover.