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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At the end of each shift, the teams remove their dive suits and drop them in barrels of disinfectants.
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At worst the disinfectant is prematurely exhausted, an effect known as organic overload, allowing large numbers of micro-organisms to survive.
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Equally empty once we arrived was the amazingly clean, white-tiled station at Mosholu Parkway, smelling heavily of recently used disinfectant .
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In addition, very high concentrations of alcohol can indeed kill cells, which is why it is used as a disinfectant .
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Products thus described are more accurately termed disinfectants.
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School, their old home, smelled of powerful floor wax and disinfectant , the smell of patriotism.
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The Licensed Vintners Association, which represents Ireland's publicans, has told members to provide disinfectant for rural pubs.
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They are sometimes acidic to neutralise any alkaline residues carried over from the washing process and sometimes include disinfectants.