Sterile Saline

Purpose: Used make dilutions of viable cells for plating or transfer to new media.

This saline concentration of 0.85% w/v (145 mM) is suitable for diluting E. coli before transferring to new media or plating on agar.

Add H₂O to final volume. Autoclave before use. Prepare large batches in 6 L flask and then aliquot out into bottles. It is not important to measure out exact volumes when dividing a large batch among bottles.