Sterilization

Yes I stand corrected. It is disinfection not sterilisation. I do not wish to invite discussion about adequate care of contact lenses. What I described was from a time long ago when thermal disinfection was the only approved method of contact lens disinfection and does not apply now with many modern...

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... will be reached before it starts boiling (usually "explosively") nor how long you can maintain the temperature. Meaning that for sterilization, you can't guarantee that enough time and heat has been applied to your device to be truly sterile. And as I said above it is not safe ...

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Hi People, I was an Optometrist but am retired now. Around 1983 that’s right 26 years ago I started using and recommending microwave ovens to sterilities contact lenses. This was an extrapolation of an old original technique of using heat like boiling the lenses in saline in their case over a stove?...

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... a tap near the sink. This is lab-grade water and can be used for making buffers, but not for cell-cultures or molecular biological purposes. Sterilization 1. Autoclave most buffers, and undefined bacterial and yeast media 2. Don’t autoclave: corrosives (Acids, phenol, bases), solvents or ...

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... won't use any chemicals, nor X-rays or gamma for some reasons you may understand. However, I can buy some UV lights originally designed for water sterilization. I see various light powers offered : 9W, 11W, 36W. The question is : which power would be best? On a more practical approach: for seeds ...

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