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REGARDING Dr. Bastiars's letter in NATURE of June 26, I am happy to be able to make a note of an experiment which is of interest and importance. I sealed a tube on to a flask of about 100 cc. capacity at right angles to the neck, and drew out the end so as to form a capillary orifice. About 30 cc. of water were put into the flask, and a thermometer in an india-rubber cork was wired into the neck. On boiling the water the steam had not issued during more than half-a-minute, before the temperature was 102°C., and in less than ten minutes it had reached 118°C.; fearing the safety of the apparatus, I did not proceed further, nor indeed did I wish to do more. The joint experiments of Drs. Sanderson and Bastian, then newly published in your paper, led me to this. My view being that Pasteur's experiments on milk, mixed with carbonate of lime, and the liquid known as “Pasteur's solution” mixed with carbonate of lime, conclusively show that liquids which ordinarily develop Bacteria, will, if they remain neutral after boiling at 100°C. also develop these organisms raise the temperature to 110°C. and the Bacteria no longer show themselves.
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HARTLEY, W. Dr. Bastian's Experiments. Nature 8, 200 (1873). https://doi.org/10.1038/008200a0
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