A Petri dish (alternatively known as a Petri plate or cell-culture dish) is a shallow transparent lidded dish that biologists use to culture cells, such as bacteria, fungi or small mosses. The container is named after its inventor, German bacteriologist Julius Richard Petri. It is the most common type of culture plate.
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We need to find the energy produced when Sun converts 1.7 kg of mass into energy. Einstein's mass energy relation is given by :

c is speed of light

So, energy produced is
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