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Dry heat sterilization is the process of sterilizing containers using hot air. Dry heat can take the form of still or convection. Still heating uses no blowers or moving air. Convection heating uses blowers or fans to keep the heated air moving, reducing the time it takes to heat the environment to the setpoint.
Although many loads could be sterilized by either dry-heat or steam autoclaves, steam sterilization, as a rule, is far less energy and time consumptive than dry-heat methods. In order to kill the most resistant spores, a dry-heat sterilizer must bring its load to 170Â°C and hold it at that temperature for one hour.