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What Is a Hot Air Oven and Why Do Laboratories Still Use It?

  Most laboratories have a hot air oven somewhere in the workspace, but people usually treat it like a basic heating box without thinking much about how important it actually is. In reality, hot air ovens are used for much more than simply heating laboratory items. They are regularly used for dry heat sterilization, glassware drying, moisture removal, sample preparation, and thermal testing in laboratories, hospitals, pharmaceutical facilities, and research centers. The reason these systems are still widely used is simple. Some laboratory materials should not come into contact with moisture during sterilization. That is where hot air ovens become useful. Unlike steam sterilizers that employ moist heat, dry heat is applied in hot air ovens. The circulating dry heated air in the oven continues to apply heat on the objects in the oven. Finally, heat produced in this way kills the microorganisms and dries the lab objects. As simple as this process sounds, it is crucial for the heated a...