Syracuse dish
# Syracuse dish

## Introduction

A Syracuse dish or Syracuse watch glass is a shallow, circular, flat-bottomed dish of thick glass. Usually, it is 67 mm in outer diameter and 52 mm in inner diameter.

## Background

Nathan Cobb, one of the pioneers of nematology in the United States,was the first who suggested using the Syracuse Dish for counting nematodes in 1918.

## Uses

It is used as laboratory equipment in biology for either storage or culturing.

