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erastovalidia [21]
4 years ago
7

the decimal reduction time (DRT) is the time it takes to kill 90% of cells present. Assume that a DRT value for autoclaving a cu

lture is 1.5 minutes. How long would it take to kill all the cells if 10^6 cells were present? What would happen if you stopped the heating process at 9 minutes?
Physics
1 answer:
kotegsom [21]4 years ago
6 0

Answer:

It takes 10.5 minutes to kill all the bacteria.

Only 1 cell would remain after 9 minutes.

Explanation:

It will take 1.5 minutes to kill 90% of the cells. So, after 1.5 minutes, only 10% would remain. After 3 minutes, only 1% remain. So, to figure out how long it would take to kill a million cells, we have to multiply 1 million by 0.1 repeatedly until the final value is less than 1 that is because when the value is less than 1, it means there are no more bacteria.

So:  

10^6 \times (0.1)^7 = 0.1  

So, you need 10.5 minutes of killing to kill one million cells.

Time taken=  7 x 1.5 minutes = 10.5 minutes.  

After 9 minutes you would have:  

10^{6} \times (0.1)^{6} = 1 cell left

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