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sterilant

[ ster-uh-luhnt ]

noun

Chemistry.
  1. a sterilizing agent.


sterilant

/ ˈɛɪəԳ /

noun

  1. any substance or agent used in sterilization
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Origin of sterilant1

First recorded in 1940–45; sterile + -ant
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As a throat sterilant we had 10-year-old Ardbeg scotch.

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“It’s hot as hell in there, and alkali is a powerful sterilant at temperature,” Wilson says.

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Dr. Schattner formed a company to produce and sell the product, and by 1990 he controlled as much as 25 percent of what was called the “cold sterilant” market.

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A chemical sterilant, on the other hand, could be combined with a bait substance and introduced into the natural environment of the fly; insects feeding on it would become sterile and in the course of time the sterile flies would predominate and the insects would breed themselves out of existence.

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In addition to culturing and gas sterilization, the FDA recommended a liquid chemical sterilant or repeating the current protocol of high-level disinfection.

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