Sterile is when you actually have used alcohol on it.
sterile gloves are clean never before used gloves, while non-sterile gloves have been used but are clean
One is guaranteed to have no microorganisms on it inside the sterile packaging, the other is clean but is not guaranteed to have no microorganisms on it.
whats a steile field and what is not
Sterility
none
you can get mumps off sterile water!
one is an action while sterile is a state of being
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Sterile is clean and clean is sterile, so both
The adjectives are partly synonymous, but something that is antiseptic kills bacteria, while something aseptic is "surgically clean or sterile."
By definition, aspetic means free of pathogenic microorganisms. Whereas Sterile means absence of all the microorganisms. While the difference is clear, both terms are sometimes used interchangably. For example, FDA has a guideline on processing the sterile drugs in the Aspetic environment. But this guideline does not draw a clear distinction between the two categories.
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