Definition of "autoclave" []

• A strong, pressurized, steam-heated vessel, as for laboratory experiments, sterilization, or cooking. (noun)

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• "Then Gilles took it out of the wine, cooked it with alcohol to make a flamb, added flour and pig blood and cooked it in the autoclave, which is basically a large, cylindrical pressure cooker."
• "The prototype of the autoclave was the digester of Denis Papin, invented in 1681, which is still used in cooking, but the appliance finds a much wider range of employment in chemical industry, where it is utilized in various forms in the manufacture of candles, coal-tar colours, &c."
• "Presently, the design of the autoclave, essentially, the autoclave is a sulfur burner."