Sentence examples for sterilizing from inspiring English sources
The word 'sterilizing' is correct and commonly used in written English
It means to make something free from bacteria or other microorganisms. It is typically used in the context of cleaning or purifying objects or surfaces. Example: The hospital staff spent hours sterilizing the operating room to ensure a sterile environment for the upcoming surgery.
verb
Present participle of sterilize
In 1928 Scottish bacteriologist Alexander Fleming was in the process of sterilizing bacterial culture plates that had become contaminated with mold when he noticed clear zones circling mold colonies.
Infections and deaths fell dramatically, and his pioneering work led to more refined techniques of sterilizing the surgical environment.
In 1974 Hancock founded the Westralian Secession Movement and the newspaper National Miner to advance his controversial ideas, which included the use of nuclear explosions to excavate mines and harbours and the introduction of sterilizing drugs to the drinking water of half-caste Aborigines.
The kettle boil lasts 60 to 90 minutes, sterilizing the wort, evaporating undesirable aromas, and precipitating insoluble proteins (known as hot break, or trub).
Arsenic compounds of particular importance in agriculture are arsenic acid (H3AsO4) and such salts as lead arsenate (PbHAsO4) and calcium arsenate [Ca3(AsO4)2], which are useful for sterilizing soils and controlling pests, respectively.
Nitromersol, synthetic mercury-containing organic compound used as an antiseptic for the skin and mucous membranes and as a disinfectant for sterilizing surgical instruments.
Always sterilize and rinse everything using a sterilizing solution (available from all homebrew shops or websites).
As she lies wrapped in white cotton in an iron cot sterilized with bleach, her swollen legs appear dislocated from her rattling body.
Conditions were put in place "largely to please Germany," said Jennifer McKeown, senior economist at Capital Economics in London, who also thinks the decision to sterilize the bond purchases was due to Weidmann.
Most intervention is sterilized: the central bank is selling currency previously held by the public, so the money supply does not change.
TODAY'S recommended economics writing: Fed weighs "sterilized" bond buying if it acts (Wall Street Journal) Why global warming skeptics are wrong (New York Review of Books) Oil could make the crisis in Europe so much worse (Wonkblog) Matt's new book (Marginal Revolution) Is Heathrow in the wrong place?
