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Posted on: Thursday, February 04, 2010 8:00 PM
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Subject: Sterilizing Water Rev1
| How to sterilize water? Simple: You don't need to ‘sterilize’ water. Sterilization is the destruction of all microorganisms in, on and around an object. What is needed, is disinfection (killing of pathogenic (disease causing) organisms). Disinfection can be done many ways, including filtration, heat, ozonation, and chemical disinfection. Despite many stories to the contrary, simply boiling water will disinfect it. At any elevation you're likely be at the boiling point of water is high enough to kill (or denature) anything in the water. You don't need to boil it for any particular length of tim |
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