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From: royt@gitpyr.UUCP (Roy M. Turner)
Newsgroups: net.bio
Subject: Re: HELP!
Message-ID: <88@gitpyr.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 3-Feb-85 10:57:49 EST
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Posted: Sun Feb  3 10:57:49 1985
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References: <1204@drusd.UUCP> <1058@amdahl.UUCP> <11808@gatech.UUCP>
Reply-To: royt@gitpyr.UUCP (Roy M. Turner)
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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Summary: 

In article <11808@gatech.UUCP> carter@gatech.UUCP (Carter Bullard) writes:
>I would recommend using UV light.  Commercially available "black
>lights" will do the trick.  Just leave your cleaned glassware
>under the light overnight.  
>
>And it really, really works.
>

That sounds reasonable, if the stuff you're trying to sterilize is
not opaque, and providing that the UV you're using is strong enough
to kill a major proportion of the little buggers and not just 
mutate them.  Also, from what little I remember of my microbiology
courses, I believe that spores are resistant to UV (and to damn
near everything else, too).

Roy

(My above opinions are the result of a shaky base in microbio, but
what do you expect from someone in a computer science department?
   :-)    )
-- 
Roy Turner
(a transplanted Kentucky hillbilly)
School of Information and Computer Science
Georgia Insitute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
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