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What is Sterilization?? What is Autoclave & EO Gas sterilization??

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Sterilization is the process of eliminating all forms of the living microorganisms and other biological agents. Microorganisms are present in the specified region such as the volume, medication and compound like biological,cultural media. Sterilization can be achieved with the different means and methods such as heat, chemicals, filtration, high pressure and irradiation.Sterilization is done in order to preserve the substance for the longest period of time without any kind of decay. Sterilization is totally different from the sanitization, pasteurization and disinfection.  Sterilization mostly uses the Autoclave   in order to sterilize the products. If the substance is not properly sterilize , this may contain numbers of the microbes which cause infections. EO Gas sterilization is performed by the means of bactericidal gas. Ethylene oxide is the gas that is mostly used . This gas is highly explosive and inflammable. But Ethylene oxide is the most effective gas to kill