Only six of Floridaâs 44 snake species are venomous, the eastern coral snake, the southern copperhead, the cottonmouth, the eastern diamondback rattlesnake, the timber rattlesnake, and the dusky pygmy rattlesnake. Most Florida snakes are harmless and beneficial and remove extra rodent populations.
Lysogeny broth, a nutritionally rich medium, is primarily used for the growth of bacteria. The initialism is also commonly, albeit incorrectly, taken to mean Luria broth, Lennox broth, or Luria-Bertani medium. According to its creator Giuseppe Bertani, the abbreviation LB was actually intended to stand for lysogeny broth. The formula of the LB medium was published in 1951 in the first paper of Bertani on lysogeny. In this article he described the modified single-burst experiment and the isolatio
So how do we get lb for pound and oz for ounce? Lb is an abbreviation of the Latin word libra. We got the word pound in English from the pondo part of the libra pondo but our abbreviation comes from the libra. The libra is also why the symbol for the British pound is Â£ â an L with a line through it. The Italian lira also used that symbol (with two lines through it), the word lira itself being a shortened version of libra. Ounce is related to the Latin uncia, the name for both the Roman ounce and inch units of measurement.