sterilization
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"Animals may receive contraception or sterilization to prevent breeding, creating natural comparison groups within the same environment."
From Science Daily • Jan. 16, 2026
China has become a major supplier of ingredients for small-molecule medications, coatings and sterilization agents for medical devices, and the chlorine and caustic soda used to keep water safe to drink.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 30, 2025
On its website, the conservancy says it considered and ruled out all of those options except sterilization, which could be used for some deer around the city of Avalon.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 8, 2025
Power outages are common, and many hospitals run short of nursing staff or consumables such as water and alcohol for sterilization.
From Science Magazine • Nov. 27, 2024
Academically, the fact that insects could be sterilized by exposure to X-ray had been known since 1916, when an entomologist by the name of G. A. Runner reported such sterilization of cigarette beetles.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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