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Definition of Disinfecting
1. disinfect [v] - See also: disinfect
Lexicographical Neighbors of Disinfecting
Literary usage of Disinfecting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Preventive Medicine and Hygiene by Milton Joseph Rosenau, George Chandler Whipple, John William Trask, Thomas William Salmon (1916)
"The average disinfecting squad does not understand the effect of temperature,
... Every disinfecting process should be controlled by exposing cultures upon ..."
2. The Medico-chirurgical Review (1827)
"The real disinfecting agent in the liquid is the chlorine which it holds in a
free state, as laid down in No. 1 ; for, if to the solution of the dry salt in ..."
3. Sewage Disposal by Leonard Parker Kinnicutt, Charles Edward Amory Winslow, Robert Winthrop Pratt (1910)
"The Design of a disinfecting Plant. The production of chlorine for ... A plant
for disinfecting a sewage effluent should consist of three tanks, ..."
4. Sanitation of Public Buildings by William Paul Gerhard (1907)
"The disinfecting Station.—Modern hospitals are also provided with a ... This may
serve not only the purpose of disinfecting the linen and clothes of ..."
5. The Retrospect of Medicine by William Braithwaite (1860)
"Perceiving the importance of these facts in a sanitary point of view, M.
Corne proposed to employ his disinfecting powder for the purpose of deodorising and ..."
6. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1831)
"Method of using the Chloride of Soda, either for Dressing Ill-conditioned Sores,
or as a means of Purifying Unhealthy Places, and of disinfecting An'nnal ..."
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