sterilize
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Around the United States, cities are increasingly warming to an idea that once induced gags: Sterilize wastewater from toilets, sinks and factories, and eventually pipe it back into homes and businesses as tap water.
From Washington Post • Nov. 19, 2021
Sterilize Me, Please Why is so difficult for young women to get their tubes tied?
From Slate • Jul. 9, 2012
Sterilize in hot water bath for 20 minutes.
From Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Science in Rural Schools by Ontario. Ministry of Education
Sterilize forty minutes if using hot-water-bath outfit or condensed-steam outfit; thirty minutes if using water-seal or five-pound steam-pressure outfit; twenty-five minutes if using pressure-cooker outfit.
From Every Step in Canning by Gray, Grace Viall
Sterilize twelve minutes in hot-water bath and condensed-steam outfits; ten minutes in water-seal outfit; six minutes under five pounds of steam pressure; four minutes in aluminum pressure cooker.
From Every Step in Canning by Gray, Grace Viall
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