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The Pasteur-Chamberland Filter

Pasteur-Chamberland Filter

Originally published in The British Medical Journal on March 6, 1886. Sir, In the Journal of February 27th, appeared a short article giving an account of the results obtained by Horn, working under the direction of Professor FOrster, of Amsterdam, with the Pasteur-Chamberland filter. As the reader might gather from the concluding lines of your article, that some difficulties attend …

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Louis Pasteur and the Pasteur Pipet

Pasteur pipette

The Pasteur Pipet was a basic instrument that played a crucial role in the experiments of Louis Pasteur experiments. Once the concept of Germ Theory was clearly established, the necessity to keep everything sanitized and free of germs was central to all experiments. Therefore, the Pasteur Pipet was developed to ensure liquids could be removed or transferred without introducing foreign …

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Louis Pasteur Experiment: The Forcing Process in Brewing Beer

Forcing Tray

— Note from the Pasteur Brewing Editor: The “forcing process” was designed to estimate the relative keeping quality of beers, by investigating the production of healthy yeast and/or bacteria in beer samples, prior to bottling. This is a highly technical process and requires efficient laboratory equipment. — Originally published in “The Microscope in the Brewery and Malt-House” in 1889. CHAPTER …

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Pasteur Process for Making Unalterable Beer

Pasteur Drying Oven

Taken from the Annual Record of Science and Industry for 1874. Pasteur, the eminent French chemist, has recently given a method for preparing an unalterable beer; that is, a beer which will not turn sour or spoil upon keeping. It is important to consider two facts as preliminary to this process. In the first place, says Pasteur, all the objectionable …

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