Re: [DIYbio] Recycling micro plates

On 04/26/2012 04:49 PM, Cathal Garvey wrote:
> Spores often have a low our negligible water content, and "wet heat" in the form of superheated steam is a great way to kill them.

Maybe a good recipe/protocol for cooking spores with efficient microwave energy
resonating on water molecules is to coat them with some kind of wet gel like agar/detergent first?

But then you'd have agar/detergent coated sterile micro plates.

what is more water absorbing and innocuous than that?

Is there anything that would make spores absorb water, and not coat the plastic surface where it was
pure and clean? Or something that leaves a layer so thin it will not make much heat to distort the
plastic under microwave energy, but it will give the spores some water to heat up with?

the alcohol treatment is sounding better than microwaves so far.

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