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A number of special terms
STERILIZATION refers to the entire series of treatments that make up
a process aimed at achieving the total killing of all living organisms.
This applies to sterilizers and usually includes air removal, heat treat-
ment and a drying phase.
STERILIZING refers to the actual killing part of the process, the heat
treatment.
On the same basis as the two terms above, STERILIZATION TIME
refers to the duration of the entire process from the start until the objects
can be taken out of the sterilizer. The PROCESS TIME is the same as
the sterilization time.
The STERILIZING TIME is only that part of the process for which
the programmed STERILIZING TEMPERATURE exists in the
chamber.
In this context, PARAMETERS means FACTORS THAT
INFLUENCE THE sterilization process. Examples of parameters in the
sterilization process are temperature, pressure, time, humidity, gas
concentration, etc.
PARAMETER VALUES may be permanently set in the program, be
adjusted by the operator, be included in selectable recipes or
downloaded from a higher-level system.
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