An Erlenmeyer flask comes to mind as another example of the cap still in
use: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlenmeyer_flask
I don't have my science reference books handy so I'm not much help, I'm
afraid. I shockingly lowercased petri dish all throughout my science degree
and am now feeling slightly dirty about it :)
-Cheri
On Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 2:55 PM, Peters Susan <speters110@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello,
A client asked me to deliver an authoritative ruling on the spelling of
Petri dish versus petri dish. It's apparently named after Julius Petri, a
German bacteriologist. My dictionary (Oxford) has it with a capital P. I
see some examples with a lowercase p.
Are there any thoughts about: American versus U.K. spelling, does it look
more modern to change from uppercase to lowercase?
I was trying to think of similar examples: where an uppercase is used to
signify that an object was due to an inventor. But I can only think of
trademarked cases.
--Susan Peters
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