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Jeff Clark
at Wed Feb 14 02:48:25 2007 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Jeff Clark ]
Sean,
..We BOTH needed to do more research on this subject. Some of what I know about using microwave radiation to kill germs is from a college microbiology class I took awhile back. I just did a google search and found quite a bit of information about using kitchen microwaves to disinfect all sorts of things even including contact lenses. I was wrong about heat not playing a major role in microwave disinfection. In studies using microwaves to disinfect kitchen sponges they found that wetting the sponge resulted in better germ kill results because the water turned to steam and the heat of the steam more thoroughly spread within the sponge and killed the germs.
Jeff Microwaving kitchen sponges to kill germs
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