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Definition of Sterilises
1. sterilise [v] - See also: sterilise
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sterilises
Literary usage of Sterilises
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1921)
"Epidem. Soc. xx. 1901 ; Fraser, Publ. Health, Sept. 1902). It was tried in the
Soudan campaign of 1898. 20 parts per million of Br sterilises ..."
2. Treatise on General and Industrial Inorganic Chemistry by Ettore Molinari (1912)
"... that whilst the nitrate sterilises water at a dilution of 1 : 2OO,O и •.
the fluoride sterilises it more persistently even at a dilution of 1 : 400000. ..."
3. A Treatise on Hygiene and Public Health by Thomas Stevenson, Shirley Forster Murphy (1898)
"... or of tubercle bacilli, sterilises the spores after an application not lasting
more than a minute ; one in a thousand sterilises most though not all ..."
4. Surgery and Society: A Tribute to Listerism by Caleb Williams Saleeby (1912)
"Unlike the rifleman, the aseptic surgeon cleans the patient's skin, mechanically
and to some extent chemically, he purifies his own fingers and sterilises ..."
5. Public health laboratory work, including methods employed in bacteriological by Henry Richard Kenwood, Rubert William Boyce (1893)
"A temperature of 170° C. is perhaps the most serviceable heat for most purposes,
and maintained for from ten to fifteen minutes effectually sterilises most ..."
6. Methods of Practical Hygiene by Karl Bernhard Lehmann (1893)
"... the instruments which the operator lays in carbolic acid at 5 per cent., or
in boiling water, sterilises them again in the flame, and takes notes, &c. ..."
7. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1903)
"... for the tired artist from the clatter of London, a house of the fancy, whence
all that jars or wearies or sterilises is resolutely banished. ..."
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