The problem is that Draghi has also said that the ECB will sterilise these purchases.

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Dr Fessl said it might be possible in the case of the Mangrove Finches to sterilise their nests.

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The system uses plasma to briefly turn oxygen inside sealed packaging into ozone in order to sterilise food.

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She added that the only safe way to eradicate the plant was to remove or sterilise all below ground material.

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In those days ether was used to sterilise the skin before injections.

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Once the hole has been blasted open with hot water, a probe carrying an ultraviolet light will be lowered to sterilise its upper section.

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Snap-up bank-note holders that press while they sterilise are also available, as are bug-killing tissues, floors, wallpaper, stuffed toys, bicycle child seats, sand boxes, origami paper and steering wheels.

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Which is really rather strange, for jam itself is a way of preserving something: and you must sterilise what you put it into as a part of the entire process anyway.

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However, argues Svetlana Tsalik of the Open Society, a group financed by George Soros, a well-known investor and philanthropist, these funds can help to sterilise capital inflows and (in theory) to save for a rainy day.

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When a central bank such as the Bank of England buys government bonds as part of quantitative easing, it does NOT sterilise the purchases, because the whole point of QE is to get more money into the system.

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