Can anything realy be sterile?

[kermit911]

I read that there is a certain worm that can life in boiling water. Is there any true way that will kill any and all things (Viruses, Bacteria, Mold, Life, etc...)?

What is the best way to sterilize a plastic bottle? (Honey Bottle)

Thanks
Dave

[HowardKennitby]

Ludwig

It's difficult to kill anything other than dead.

[ludwig]

..yes I know - but that's the Domestos slogan I was quoting.

It's their tautological faux pas, not mine.

[HowardKennitby]

Advertising has a lot to answer for - new, improved etc.

[nescio]

If it kills 99% of germs, that means it leaves only the really nasty virulent ones, which can then proliferate without competition from the less harmful ones.

Good thinking !

[rowanwitch]

wash well in hot water and detergent then use milton as you would for a babies bottle ensuring the item is completely submerged do not rinse

[jomifl]

Nescio, it does not ''leave only the really nasty virulent ones''. By the ''nasty virulent ones'' I take it that you mean the ones that cause disease, in fact pathogenic bacteria are probably more susceptible to chlorine than the majority of non pathogenic bacteria which are tough little bugs which live out in the wide world and not in a comfortable human body.

[jomifl]

So Kermit what do you want to use the bottle for? If you let tell us someone will surely know what is the most appropriate way of sterilising it.

[jason.p]

In hospitals and dentists instruments are sterilised with steam under pressure in an autoclave. The pressure allows steam reach a higher temperature than at atmospheric pressure usually aound 130C. This is guaranteed to kill bacterial spores which are extremely resistant to other means of sterilisation.

[Old_Geezer]

I reckon an black hole must be sterile. Probably a star would be too.

[Baldric]

TV STAR/FILM STAR? can you name names??

[wildwood]

I suppose a bottle of neat dettol would not hold many forms of life.