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A swan neck duct is a particular shape of normally plastic or glass tube, much like a bent glass rod leading into a test tube. The "swan neck" significantly slows down the action of bacteria spreading through into the test tube. Louis Pasteur discovered that this method slows bacteria from gathering in the test tube in 1862 during one of his many chemical and microbiological tests.
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