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Sterilising soil
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Wolstenholme writes Most microwaves will not sterilise dry soil. The soil will have to be wet all the way through. A bit like cooking a mud pie. Steve That would be for heating it though Steve wouldn't it? Surely a microwave would kill many germs/organisms? -- Janet Tweedy Dalmatian Telegraph http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk |
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Sterilising soil
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Janet Tweedy wrote: In article , Stephen Wolstenholme writes Most microwaves will not sterilise dry soil. The soil will have to be wet all the way through. A bit like cooking a mud pie. That would be for heating it though Steve wouldn't it? Surely a microwave would kill many germs/organisms? Why and how? They typically kill only by heating. You need at least blue light to be energetic enough to kill by disrupting the inter-atomic bonds directly. Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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