It is a common misconception that jewelry can be sterilized by boiling or using alcohol or hydrogen peroxide. The only way to completely sterilize, or remove all viable microorganisms from, your jewelry is with an autoclave, a machine that does...
Antiseptics and disinfectants are the basic tools of cleaning and sanitizing, yet the difference between the two substances is unclear. Knowing the difference between antiseptics and disinfectants and how each works to sterilize wounds or surfaces...
Any jewelry that you insert into your body should first be cleaned and disinfected. Even if your piercing is healed, you don't know through whose hands your jewelry has passed before it gets to you. Cleaning your jewelry before insertion reduces...
The first soaps were from the sap of plants that people called soap plant and soapberry. They later learned to make soap by combining fats with ashes, which are highly alkaline. The resulting chemical reaction produced stearate, the basic...
Cidex, which is also called Glutaraldehyde, is a strong disinfectant used to clean medical instruments. This colorless solution effectively destroys specific types of bacteria, fungi and viruses present on medical instruments. Cidex can also clean...
More than 125 animal species synthesize some form of fluorescent protein, commonly seen in marine creatures displaying bioluminescence. Fluorescent proteins may be green, blue, orange-red, far-red, yellow or a combination of two colors, such as...
Diptheria is a disease that was a serious health threat before the advent of a vaccine. Characterized by a thick, gray covering in the back of your throat that can make breathing difficult, diptheria can damage your heart, kidneys and nervous...
