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pasteurize

In 1864 Louis Pasteur showed that gently heating wine killed the microbes that soured it. French named the process after him, English took the verb in the early 1880s as the method spread to milk, and now the word is on milk cartons from Lisbon to Istanbul and Tel Aviv.

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