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Unread 12-29-2004, 03:46 PM   #5
Kobuchi
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Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: BC, Canada
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and all the plastic bits ?
Like all the plastic bits people thoughtlessly boil in their kitchens daily and for decades? None melt at 100C. The lids for home canning jars are often plastic coated with a rubber seal ring. I've boiled loads of baby stuff - all sorts of plastics - and encountered just one problem: clear silicone grows cloudy from repeated boiling.

This must be the best way to make a pure water system sterile... if the pump can take 100C and fantastic cavitation.

On the other hand, it's overkill unless one has clear tubes with fluorescent lights (grow-lights) shining through them.
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