Definitions for autoclave

autoclave au·to·clave

Spelling: [aw-tuh-kleyv]
IPA: /ˈɔ təˌkleɪv/

Autoclave is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 344 anagrams from letters in autoclave (aacelotuv).

Definitions for autoclave

noun

  1. a heavy vessel for conducting chemical reactions under high pressure.
  2. pressure cooker.
  3. Medicine/Medical, Bacteriology. an apparatus in which steam under pressure effects sterilization.

verb (used with object)

  1. to place in an autoclave.

Origin of autoclave

1875-80; French, equivalent to auto- auto-1 + clave Latin clāv-, stem of clāvis key and clāvus nail

Examples for autoclave

Choosing two vials, he added them to the sterile kit from the autoclave, and took a last look around.

Sterilisation by means of superheated steam is carried out in a special boiler—Chamberland's autoclave (Fig. 30).

The method consists in merely charging the autoclave with fats and adding about 30 per cent.

Remove the apparatus from the autoclave, and allow it to cool.

Fix the bucket over a large Bunsen flame and boil for thirty minutes—or boil in the autoclave for a similar period.

The lower the pressure in the autoclave, the lighter will be the colour of the resultant fatty acids.

An autoclave combined with vacuum chambers and other devices that sterilized and canned milk or other liquid dairy products.

Heat the whole apparatus in the autoclave at 120° C. for twenty minutes.

Steam applied in an autoclave under a pressure of two atmospheres destroys even the most resistant spores in a few minutes.

The author found that in an autoclave of the type shown in Fig. 81 it required ten minutes for 500 cc.

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