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Sterilizer

noun

A device for heating substances above their boiling point; used to manufacture chemicals or to sterilize surgical instruments. Synonyms: autoclave, steriliser.

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"Sterilizer" Quotes from Famous Books

... form of home sterilizer, cut an oblong piece of unbleached muslin large enough to sink far down into the boiler and run a drawing-string of stout cord about the edge. Cover the bottom of the boiler with several inches of water; tie the hammock in place, passing the cord beneath the handles of the boiler to ...

— The Prospective Mother - A Handbook for Women During Pregnancy • J. Morris Slemons

... shabby. Kennicott had inherited it from a medical predecessor, and changed it only by adding a white enameled operating-table, a sterilizer, a Roentgen-ray apparatus, and a small portable typewriter. It was a suite of two rooms: a waiting-room with straight chairs, shaky pine table, and those coverless and unknown magazines which are found only in the offices of dentists and doctors. The room beyond, looking on Main Street, ...

— Main Street • Sinclair Lewis

Words linked to "Sterilizer" : vessel, steriliser, pressure cooker, sterilize, digester, autoclave