The autoclave sterilizes material by:
a. applying dry heat at high temperatures and pressure.
b. infusing gaseous chemicals that kill or-ganisms.
c. applying moist heat at high temperatures and increased pressure.
d. cleaving protein bonds found in most bio-logical agent cell walls.
C
Several ways are used to sterilize material in the laboratory. Moist heat at high temperature and pressure (autoclave), dry heat (ovens), pulling solution through a membrane with a vacuum (fil-tration), radiation, and chemicals are all used, depending on the material involved.
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