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"Distributing the organisms by rotating the spreader rather than the plate tends to cause more pooling of the inoculum." https://asm.org/ASM/media/Protocol-Images/Preparing-Spread-Plates-Protocols.pdf?ext=.pdf

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Forming a pool (second definition in link); forming a small amount of liquid on a surface. A la "I knocked my cup over and the coffee formed a small pool on my bench"

Basically this results in a concentration of the organisms in one area, rather than an evenly distributed spread.

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