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How does using radiation to sterilise medical Equipment work ?

April 26, 2017equipment Mathematics medical Physics radiation sterilise

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How does using radiation to sterilise medical Equipment work ?

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The energy of the radiation changes the molecules in the cell, and creates free radicals and other excited molecules. The large amount of water (H2O) contained in any cell gets broken into H and OH, which are strong reducing agents and oxidizing agents respectively. With so many strongly reactive chemicals in the cell body, harmful chemical reactions are bound to happen, which destroys the cell.