
Does heat kill spores reliably?
#1
Posted 09 February 2005 - 02:23 PM
#2
Guest_smokalotapotamus_*
Posted 09 February 2005 - 07:05 PM
#3
Guest_rodger_*
Posted 09 February 2005 - 07:11 PM
#4
Guest_taoist_*
Posted 09 February 2005 - 07:38 PM
Not only is it 1/1000 (having billions to begin with), but they're the tough guys (lasted through a pressure cooking). Little bastards...maybe one day when I'm tripping I can have a great battle with an endospore and finally win...
#5
Guest_jeklhyd_*
Posted 09 February 2005 - 11:42 PM
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Guest_spin_*
Posted 11 February 2005 - 10:02 PM
Will PC temps kill em all in a PF jar?
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Guest_rodger_*
Posted 11 February 2005 - 10:12 PM
#8
Posted 11 February 2005 - 11:44 PM
Boiling was about 12 hours.
PC temps of 250 i think it was about five.
300 degrees it was down to an hourish i think
it eventually got up to 700ish, which took a good minute.
#9
Posted 11 February 2005 - 11:54 PM
#10
Guest_taoist_*
Posted 12 February 2005 - 11:46 AM

#11
Posted 12 February 2005 - 01:56 PM
It's pretty technical, not a simple chat, but it has some interesting info in it:
http://www.ees9.com/f0.htm
#12
Guest_rodger_*
Posted 12 February 2005 - 03:09 PM
I have a bucket of rye soaking in weak coffee that I forgot in my basement a good week ago. Speaking of endospore germination....eeeewwww...<!-/quote-!><hr size=0></blockquote>
Just follow the smell, it shouldn't be hard to find.
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Guest_somecallme..._*
Posted 13 February 2005 - 03:32 PM
Boiling was about 12 hours.
PC temps of 250 i think it was about five.
300 degrees it was down to an hourish i think
it eventually got up to 700ish, which took a good minute.<!-/quote-!><hr size=0></blockquote>
LOL, at my place of work we mess with a lot of chemicals, but we never worry about the organics because the high temperatures. Above 600 to 700 degrees (CELCIUS --which would be about 1100 to 1300 F) all the carbon in any living cell starts to come off as CO2 or CO and the rest becomes ash. High Temp Furnaces are FUN!!

Not really relavent...but fun to think how many endospores are being sent to a fiery grave.

