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Your signature just read "I'll pasteurize your bassoon!" I play the bassoon but I can't recall what pasteurizing is, but I do remember it has something to do with chemistry, so perhaps you could speculate on what pasteurizing a bassoon would mean?
Or am I just too incoherent...?
It might be tea time in ADK's segment of the globe, I don't know.
Pasteurizaton is something I try to do daily, or at least semiweekly. It is more about microbiology than chemistry, strictly speaking. In my fiddle-fixing activities, I use leather-flavoured Jell-O to stick bits of wood to other bits. Dry granules of animal hide glue keep indefinitely, but soaked in warm water, they form a gel which makes an outstanding culture medium for fungi and bacteria. Rather than have my glue turn into a science project with black, green and white fuzz growing on it, I melt it in a hot-water bath nearly every day, and keep it covered so viable microbes dont come drifting down on their little dust-particle rafts.
That heating (with the intent of killing microbes) amounts to pasteurisation. Dairies do a similar thing to milk before sealing it in jugs.