steam sterilization

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• Soil steam sterilization — is a farming technique that sterilizes soil with steam in open fields or greenhouses. It is being used as an alternative to bromomethane, whose production and use was curtailed by the Montreal Protocol. Steam effectively kills pathogens by… …   Wikipedia

• Sterilization (microbiology) — Sterilization (or sterilisation, see spelling differences) refers to any process that effectively kills or eliminates transmissible agents (such as fungi, bacteria, viruses, spore forms, etc.) from a surface, equipment, article of food or… …   Wikipedia

• steam|er — «STEE muhr», noun. 1. a steamboat; steamship. 2. an engine run by steam. 3. a container in which something is steamed or kept warm, as for sterilization or cooking. 4. a boiler or other vessel for generating steam. 5. = steamcar. (Cf. ↑steamcar) …   Useful english dictionary

• sterilization — 1. The act or process by which an individual is rendered incapable of fertilization or reproduction, as by vasectomy, partial salpingectomy, or castration. 2. The destruction of all microorganisms in or about an object, as by steam (flowing or… …   Medical dictionary

• Dry heat sterilization — See also: Sterilization (microbiology) Dry heat sterilization of an article is one of the earliest forms of sterilization practiced. Dry heat, as the name indicates, utilizes hot air that is either free from water vapour, or has very little of it …   Wikipedia

• Moist heat sterilization — See also: Sterilization (microbiology) Heating an article is one of the earliest forms of sterilization practiced. Moist heat, as the name indicates, utilizes hot air that is heavily laden with water vapour and where this moisture plays the most… …   Wikipedia

• Superheated steam — is steam at a temperature higher than its saturation temperature. If saturated steam is heated at constant pressure, its temperature will rise, producing superheated steam. This may occur in a boiler/autoclave if saturated steam is exposed to a… …   Wikipedia

• Seattle Steam Company — The Seattle Steam Company is a privately owned district heating public utility that provides steam (generated by burning natural gas, diesel oil, and is undergoing a delayed and problematic conversion to be able to use recycled wood) to over 175… …   Wikipedia

• fractional sterilization — noun : sterilization by repeated exposure to flowing steam at such intervals as would permit bacterial or other spores present to pass into the nonresistant negative stage between exposures …   Useful english dictionary

• Infection control — is the discipline concerned with preventing nosocomial or healthcare associated infection, a practical (rather than academic) sub discipline of epidemiology. It is an essential, though often under recognized and under supported, part of the… …   Wikipedia

• germfree life — Introduction       biological condition characterized by the complete absence of living microorganisms. Gnotobiology comprises the study of germfree plants and animals, as well as living things in which specific microorganisms, added by… …   Universalium