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p> span 2.5 pts Question 2 When might a gas treatment with ethylene oxide gas be used to control microbial growth instead of autoclaving? What are some examples? HTML Editora - Paragra B I VA - A - I E , EE - DOVEDT 112pt

Answer 1

There are numerous ways in which objects / materials can be sterelised. amongst all, the two are

autoclaving

and ethylene oxide

first we need to know certain differences between the two.

Autoclaving is a steam sterelisation while ethylene oxide is a has sterelisation.

autoclaving requires the material to be exposed to a very high amount of pressure while its not so in ethylene oxide

This clearly shows that ethylene oxide is used in situations when the materials cannot take such excessive amount of heat/temperature.

sometimes the use of autoclave is not physically possible due to economic factors and due to low input energy.

eg) we cannot use autocalve to sterelise acrylic materials, polycarbs, propylene products or in commoner words any material that is made of plastic while it can be sterelised by ethylene oxide. Other materials include glasses.

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