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Sterilizer

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Noun
  1. 1
    A device used to sterilize, killing pathogens by means such as heat, UV light, chemicals, etc.

    "The hospital was in trouble when the sterilizer broke; they almost had to shut down the operating room."

  2. 2
    a device for heating substances above their boiling point; used to manufacture chemicals or to sterilize surgical instruments wordnet

Etymology

From sterilize + -er.

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