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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.
While both dry-heat sterilization and moist-heat treatment can get similar results with many loads, there are some tasks that are not practical with a steam autoclave. These include loads that are hydrophobic (such as fats and oils) or will be damaged by moisture (such as powders). A dry-heat process is vital for sterilizing instruments that are at risk of corrosion. Dry-heat also works well with glassware. But dry-heat sterilizers are by no means an all purpose solution. Liquids cannot be dry-heat sterilized (or theyâll simply boil off), nor can laboratory growth media, nor many flammable loads.