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autoclaveVessel, usually of steel, able to withstand high temperatures and pressures. The chemical industry uses various types of autoclaves in manufacturing dyes and in other chemical reactions requiring high pressures. In bacteriology and medicine, instruments, equipment, supplies, and culture media are sterilized by superheated steam in an autoclave. In 1679 Denis Papin (1647–c. 1712) invented a prototype known as a steam digester; still used in cooking, it is now called a pressure cooker. autoclave 1. a strong sealed vessel used for chemical reactions at high pressure 2. an apparatus for sterilizing objects (esp surgical instruments) or for cooking by means of steam under pressure 3. Civil engineering a vessel in which freshly cast concrete or sand-lime bricks are cured very rapidly in high-pressure steam |
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All ophthalmologists reused some surgical instruments and cleaned instruments by either autoclaving or the ethylene oxide gas method, which have been reported to incompletely sterilize [PrP. The tapes can be formed by compression molding or vacuum-bag autoclaving. You can imagine how dirty a handpiece turbine can get if the debris is not flushed out of the head prior to autoclaving. |
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