"' Z-value "'is a term used in microbial thermal death time calculations.
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There is a Thermal death time for microorganisms, but no single thermal death point for a living organism.
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It would also pave the way for thermal death time research that was pioneered by Bigelow and C . Olin Ball from 1921 to 1936.
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Bigelow and Ball's research focused on the thermal death time of " Clostridium botulinum " ( " C . botulinum " ) that was determined in the early 1920s.