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Disinfection   /dɪsɪnfˈɛkʃən/   Listen
Disinfection

noun
1.
Treatment to destroy harmful microorganisms.





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"Disinfection" Quotes from Famous Books



... force. Then they purified the basilicas by scraping down the walls and washing the floors with big douches of water; and after demolishing the altar, they scattered salt where it had stood. It was a perfect disinfection. The Donatists treated the Catholics like ...
— Saint Augustin • Louis Bertrand
... article in a stray number of a professional journal picked up in the office of a medical missionary, devoted column after column to the uselessness of all known methods of disinfection. Sulphur, formaldehyde, carbolic acid, permanganate of potash, chloride of lime, bichloride of mercury—the author knew not which of these "fetiches" to be most sarcastic about. It may be that the net result of our copious ...
— Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled - A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska • Hudson Stuck


Words linked to "Disinfection" :   disinfect, chlorination, medical aid, medical care


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