Sterilizing Objects With Hot Air Oven

Description : Originally invented by Pasteur, hot air oven is an electrical instrument that uses dry heat to sterilize. The heat operation ranges from 50°C to 300°C. The need for Hot air oven in the present scenario is tremendous in manufacturing, rubber, pharmaceutical laboratories, and plastics. Working is purely based on the thermostat to manage the temperature. Dry heat sterilization is applied to an instrument that is not wet. It cannot be implemented on a substance that melts, catches fire or changes its form after its exposure to high temperature. Moist heat sterilization is the method that uses water to boil objects or high-pressure steam to sterilize.

Hot air oven sterilizes objects such as glassware (test tubes, flasks, and pipettes), metal instruments (blades, scissors), powders (sulfadiazine, starch, zinc oxide), materials that have oil and glass test tubes.