UV light may degrade plastic materials over time ... In recent years, water treatment facilities, food producers, and hospitals, where sterilization is a top concern, have taken a keen interest ...

Here's how these UV light sanitizers actually work. UV light is highly effective at killing germs The three main types of UV rays are UVA, UVB, and UVC. Because UVC rays have the shortest ...

But it’s a costly tactic: steam takes a lot of energy to produce, and the equipment has to be hardened against the high temperatures and pressures that occur during sterilization. “This was an ...

[Akiba] at Hackerfarm has come up with the NukeMeter, a meter that measures the output of their UV-C sterilizer the NukeBox ... is not that sensitive to UV-C light, so [Akiba] had to do a bit ...

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