disinfection

Examples of disinfecting

disinfecting

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

The current most common ways of disinfecting them include superheat and hyperchlorination.
The use of gloves in medical settings began in the early part of the twentieth century, mainly to protect medical personnel from harsh disinfecting solutions.
A possible explanation for this could be an interruption of the disinfecting process.
Another way to make the phylloxera physically visible was to recreate the vineyard as a disinfecting room outdoors.
Until 1901, no dosage recommendations had been supplied with instructions for disinfecting the vineyards.
This high diversity suggests a large degree of flexibility in the ability of these communities to respond successfully to cleaning and disinfecting procedures.
Treatments using disinfecting agents such as chlorhexidine or povidone-iodine have hardly been studied and there is no evidence to support their therapeutic value.
The future risk of typhoid could also be reduced by treating sewage and disinfecting water supplies.
During this phase, resistance to disinfecting procedures should be minimal.
It was based on the assumption that blood itself possessed disinfecting properties.
Such a coated surface will require fewer and less cleaning and disinfecting agents, hence reducing the number and amount of chemicals needed in food processing.
Despite intense disinfecting and cleaning procedures, the clone libraries revealed a high diversity, which was restricted to only aerobic bacteria.
Disinfecting whole spaces was the practice of pre-bacteriological hygiene that dominated the control of disease in the 1870s, and that of bacteriology as long as it lacked specific antibacterial practices.
Repeated scrubbing of boots in sea water at the beach and on the deck, while not disinfecting, will substantially reduce the load of microorganisms available for translocation.
Attention focused on speedily offloading cargo on to lighters for disinfecting and prompt release to shipping agents.
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