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# pasteurisation

«pasteurisation» in Mova's school dictionary: **heating milk, juice or other food to a set temperature…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (pasteurisation, uncountable); US and international spelling «pasteurization»; verb: pasteurise / pasteurize

### meaning for a pupil

1) Pasteurisation is heating milk, juice or other food to a set temperature for a short time to kill harmful germs, then cooling it quickly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pasteurisation/#m1)

2) It is named after the French scientist Louis Pasteur, who showed that tiny microbes make food go bad and cause disease. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pasteurisation/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons it is an example of how microbes can be killed by heat and how science made food safer; pasteurised milk lasts longer in the fridge and is much less likely to make you ill. It is not the same as boiling: the milk is heated less, so it still tastes like milk. Phrases: «pasteurised milk», «unpasteurised cheese», «the process of pasteurisation».

### examples

- Pasteurisation kills harmful bacteria in milk. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pasteurisation/#x1)
- Most milk in shops has gone through pasteurisation. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pasteurisation/#x2)
- Louis Pasteur discovered the idea behind pasteurisation. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pasteurisation/#x3)
- Pasteurised juice keeps longer than freshly squeezed juice. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pasteurisation/#x4)
- Pregnant women are often told to avoid unpasteurised cheese. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pasteurisation/#x5)
- In one common method, milk is heated to about 72 °C for 15 seconds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pasteurisation/#x6)
- Our science poster showed the steps of pasteurisation. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pasteurisation/#x7)

### note

Uncountable. UK spelling with «s», US with «z»; both are correct. Pasteurisation does not kill every microbe, so milk still needs a fridge. It is not sterilisation, which kills everything.

### In the corpora

- [From the farm the milk travels cold in a tanker to the dairy, where a quick heating called pasteurisation kills the germs.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/341-where-milk-comes-from-cow-to-carton-cheese-butter-and-yoghurt/4/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «pasteurisation» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pasteurisation/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.