Essentialism, In ontology, the view that some properties of objects are essential to them. The âessenceâ of a thing is conceived as the totality of its essential properties. Theories of essentialism differ with respect to their conception of what it means to say that a property is essential to an object.
Decontamination is the process of removal of contaminating pathogenic microorganisms from the articles by a. process of sterilization or disinfection. It is the use of physical or chemical means to remove, inactivate, or destroy. living organisms on a surface so that the organisms are no longer infectious.
1. killing microorganisms, or suppressing their multiplication or growth. 2. an agent that kills microorganisms or suppresses their multiplication or growth. Antimicrobial agents are classified functionally according to the manner in which they adversely affect a microorganism. Some interfere with the synthesis of the bacterial cell wall. This results in cell lysis because the contents of the bacterial cell are hypertonic and therefore under high osmotic pressure.