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Project Question: Are toilet bowl cleaners effective at killing bacteria??? If so , which ones work the best???
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Research topic

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Our Science fair topic: Are toilet bowl cleaners effective against killing bacteria??? If so, which ones work the best??? We are using disks impregnated with 6 different toilet bowl cleaners and testing against 5 different types of bacteria. We will measure zones of inhibition. For the research paper I am not sure what to do. Should we research on KB disk diffusion method??? Any suggestions???
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Re: Research topic

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MicroMedTech wrote:Our Science fair topic: Are toilet bowl cleaners effective against killing bacteria??? If so, which ones work the best??? We are using disks impregnated with 6 different toilet bowl cleaners and testing against 5 different types of bacteria. We will measure zones of inhibition. For the research paper I am not sure what to do. Should we research on KB disk diffusion method??? Any suggestions???
This seems like a good topic. You could research on the KB disk method as well as the different antimicrobials used and how they work.

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I would also check out our Science Fair Project Guide and read the pages under "Doing Background Research."

The guide can be found here: https://www.sciencebuddies.org/science- ... l?From=Tab

This will help you determine what terms you should research.

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