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Re:The outdoor community made water filtration a must for a ... by jjoonathan on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @10:08PM (#16321972)
Their ability to resist heat has been greatly exaggerated. The kernel of truth is that some sterilization procedures are insufficient to eliminate them and that definitive guidelines have not been fully agreed on. Common folklore translates this into "they are impervious to heat."
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Re:The outdoor community made water filtration a must for a ... by DrScump on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @01:47AM (#16322693)
Please describe the process by which a prion is rendered harmless at a mere 100C. Denaturing a protein generally requires a lot more.
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Re:The outdoor community made water filtration a must for a ... by SideburnsOfDoom on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @05:27AM (#16323510)
> Denaturing a protein generally requires a lot more .. than 100C

Nope. Protein generally denatures at lower than 100C / boiling point.

That's the principle of Sous Vide, not that you should use Sous Vide to sterilise anything, but the protein in egg white denatures at 60-80C.

http://www.scienceofcooking.com/eggs/eggs_sous_vide.htm

And in meat it's similar, 50-70C http://www.mpip-mainz.mpg.de/Sous_vide_cooking

If you doubt it, stick your hand in water at 80C and see what happens.

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Re:The outdoor community made water filtration a must for a ... by aaronblohowiak on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @06:31PM (#16328948)
Prions don't degrade at the boiling point: http://www.microbiologyresearch.org/docserver/fulltext/jgv/8...
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Re:The outdoor community made water filtration a must for a ... by SideburnsOfDoom on Thursday February 08, 2018 @08:19AM (#16331872)
Sure, though that's entirely different from the grandparent post's statement about "Denaturing a protein generally", which happens well below boiling point.
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Re:The outdoor community made water filtration a must for a ... by jjoonathan on Friday February 09, 2018 @12:29PM (#16342079)
Where did I claim they were rendered harmless at a mere 100C?
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