Meaning | heat food in order to kill harmful microorganisms. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
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Synonym | pasteurize |
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Cause to | condense, distill, distil | Undergo condensation |
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Broader | change integrity | change in physical make-up |
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Spanish | pasterizar, pasteurizar |
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Catalan | pasteuritzar |
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Participle | pasteurised | having been subjected to pasteurization in order to halt fermentation |
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unpasteurised | not having undergone pasteurization |
Nouns | Pasteur | French chemist and biologist whose discovery that fermentation is caused by microorganisms resulted in the process of pasteurization (1822-1895) |
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pasteurisation | partial sterilization of foods at a temperature that destroys harmful microorganisms without major changes in the chemistry of the food |