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  • verb Present participle of autoclave.

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  • The best, most cost-effective solution is known as autoclaving, which means high temperature steam sterilization in a machine that is basically a big dishwasher.

    THE STORY OF STUFF Annie Leonard 2010

  • The best, most cost-effective solution is known as autoclaving, which means high temperature steam sterilization in a machine that is basically a big dishwasher.

    THE STORY OF STUFF Annie Leonard 2010

  • The best, most cost-effective solution is known as autoclaving, which means high temperature steam sterilization in a machine that is basically a big dishwasher.

    THE STORY OF STUFF Annie Leonard 2010

  • The best, most cost-effective solution is known as autoclaving, which means high temperature steam sterilization in a machine that is basically a big dishwasher.

    THE STORY OF STUFF Annie Leonard 2010

  • I’m a Navy vet, bit, and I’ve known a corpsman or two and reusing needles without autoclaving is and has long been a no-no, at least in sickbays; that runs against protocol and would happen only under extreme circumstances.

    Think Progress » DOJ Cites Powell’s Past Support For DADT To Defend The Policy In Court 2010

  • There are other acceptable ways - including autoclaving, which is industrial steam cleaning - to kill pathogens in biohazardous waste.

    Kansas City infoZine Headlines 2009

  • Coun Wakefield has been pushing for a steam-sterilisation system called autoclaving, which would allow recyclables to be separated and leave behind a clean matter that could have a variety of uses.

    unknown title 2009

  • · Disinfection: Patient's excreta, sputum, blood and all objects with which the patient has had contact, including laboratory equipment used to carry out tests on blood, should be disinfected with 0.5% sodium hypochlorite solution or 0.5% phenol with detergent, and, as far as possible, by appropriate heating methods such as autoclaving, incineration or boiling.

    Chapter 4 2000

  • The most ideal method turned out to be a kind of autoclaving using solar energy (called solar curing): batches of 10 - 15 tiles (held in box-like frames) are placed in the curing tanks, which contain just a few centimeters of water.

    Chapter 10 1991

  • "vapour curing", is a kind of autoclaving using solar energy.

    Chapter 3 1991

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