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Sterilization  n.  (Biol.) The act or process of sterilizing, or rendering sterile; also, the state of being sterile.






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"Sterilization" Quotes from Famous Books



... foods either partly or completely. Many foods need partial or complete sterilization for safety. They must be completely sterilized if the germs that produce fermentation or putrefaction and thereby spoil food would be destroyed. This is done when fruits and vegetables are canned for keeping. Foods that are ...
— Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 1 - Volume 1: Essentials of Cookery; Cereals; Bread; Hot Breads • Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences

... stars, while the earth contains everything we have found in meteorites. Then why make an exception of life, instead of supposing that at corresponding periods of development the same living forms inhabit all? It would be assuming the eternal sterilization of the functions of Nature to suppose that our earth is the only body ...
— A Journey in Other Worlds - A Romance of the Future • John Jacob Astor

... tell you the color won't stand our modern sterilization process. I misdoubt the dreams, too. If they dream 'em, they're of independence and careers and votes; you wouldn't call those romantic dreams, would you? The little 'clinging vines'—" he waved them back into the past with a comprehensive sweep of his hand—"all ...
— Miss Theodosia's Heartstrings • Annie Hamilton Donnell

... be sterilization. To begin with metals, uranium melts at 1150 deg. centigrade, and tungsten at 3370 deg. and iridium at 2350 deg. You could load such things and melt them down in space and then tow them home. And you can actually sterilize a lot of ...
— Pariah Planet • Murray Leinster

... sterilization of marriage makes it possible for marriage to fulfill its accidental function ...
— Maxims for Revolutionists • George Bernard Shaw

... education. And the verdict can be, at the most, justifiable, or at any rate inevitable, pasticide. You cannot eat your cake and have it; you cannot kill off all the bad things and keep all the good ones. With sterilization goes purification, pasticide may be accompanied by pasteurization. At any rate, "the old order changeth," and you've got ...
— International Language - Past, Present and Future: With Specimens of Esperanto and Grammar • Walter J. Clark



Words linked to "Sterilization" :   sterilisation, surgical process, pasteurisation, sterilize, fixing, surgical operation, surgery, cleansing, surgical contraception, neutering, surgical procedure, altering, cleanup, operation



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