thermal death point

thermal death point
thermal death point n the temperature at which all organisms of a culture will be killed by heat either instantaneously or within an arbitrary brief finite period

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the lowest temperature at which a broth culture of microorganisms can be heat-killed in a 10-minute exposure time.

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