Sentence examples for autoclave from inspiring English sources
noun
A strong, pressurized, heated vessel, as for laboratory experiments, sterilization, cooking or mineral processing.
The fuel is of sufficient quality and consistency to allow it to be used as a substitute for coal in factories and power plants, not just in incinerators.A British firm called Sterecycle opened the world's first big waste autoclave in north-east England last year and recently announced plans to double its capacity.
Others suggest replacing the biological step above with some form of heat-treatment, such as high-pressure superheated steam in an autoclave, or gasification using a plasma arc that vaporises the garbage in the absence of oxygen so few of the noxious products of combustion are produced.
This creased trio is inserted in a steam chamber, or autoclave, for a given length of time, depending on fabric characteristics and pleat durability desired.
Nutrient crystals are placed in the hot portion of a solution-filled autoclave, and an oriented seed crystal free from twinning is placed in the cooler portion.
The superoxide (NaO2) can be prepared by heating metallic sodium to 300 °C (570 °F) in an autoclave (a heated pressure vessel) containing oxygen at high pressure.
In the basic process, finely ground monazite or xenotime is mixed with a 70 percent sodium hydroxide (NaOH) solution and held in an autoclave at 140 150 °C (284 302 °F) for several hours.
In order to produce ammonium paratungstate (APT), an intermediate compound in production of the pure metal, ores may be decomposed by acid leaching or by the autoclave-soda process.
That helps a little, but does nothing to separate out the items that do not burn or that would fetch a higher price if recycled.Sterile solutionInstead, several firms are touting an alternative treatment called autoclaving.
In essence, autoclaves are industrial-sized rotating pressure-cookers.
Oxidation can also be accomplished by the use of high-pressure reactors called autoclaves, in which the minerals in an aqueous slurry are treated at high temperature and pressure with oxygen-bearing gases.
Professor Collinge led one of a number of research groups that came up with novel ways of destroying the lethal prion protein, which sticks to the stainless steel of surgical instruments like superglue and can survive the high temperatures of hospital autoclaves.
