Crossword clues for decontamination
The Collaborative International Dictionary
decontamination \decontamination\ n. The removal of contaminants; as, the decontamination of a room after a spill of radioactive materials.
Wiktionary
n. The process of removing contamination, particularly the cleaning off of dangerous materials.
WordNet
n. the removal of contaminants [ant: contamination]
Wikipedia
Decontamination (sometimes abbreviated as decon, dcon, or decontam) is the process of cleansing an object or substance to remove contaminants such as micro-organisms or hazardous materials, including chemicals, radioactive substances, and infectious diseases.
The purpose of decontamination is to prevent the spread of micro-organisms and other noxious contaminants that may threaten the health of human beings or animals, or damage the environment.
Decontamination is most commonly used in medical environments, including dentistry, surgery and veterinary science, in the process of food preparation, in environmental science, and in forensic science. lye silica quartz 16 52 42
Usage examples of "decontamination".
Encumbered by their bulky decontamination suits, slowed by the curved floor of the pipe, they ran in a lurching shuffle.
Enrico Valdez was sitting at one of the programming boards, in a deep-seated chair designed to accommodate a man in a decontamination suit complete with air tank.
Isley and Arkham, the two men without names on their decontamination suits, were not even members of the Civilian Defense Unit, they were from a different project altogether.
Isley and Captain Arkham, who wore the decontamination suits that had no names on the helmets, were sitting on two stools, across the table.
She was still dressed in her decontamination suit, but she was no longer wearing the helmet, the tank of compressed air, or the waste recycling unit.
More empty decontamination suits and submachine guns were piled in there.
Observing the decontamination chamber from the cockpit viewer, Chase was oddly reminded of a mother and child.
When they were through in the decontamination chamber, she foraged in the supply room and found two blankets to wrap around them.
Do every part of the ship, except the cockpit, decontamination, and the laboratory.
Then she went through decontamination herself, hoping to kill any external germs that might be on her.
Bypassing decontamination, he carried her to the laboratory and placed her on the table.
The drone refers to the need for treatment, decontamination, and observation of a quarantine.
If you will make a decontamination chamber for her, she will go through it, wash herself thoroughly, cut off her hair if you insist, and change her clothing before entering an isolation chamber of your choice until you can see that she is disease-free.
He went quickly through the tiny airlocked decontamination chamber that Carl Anders, head of the IMA lab, had recently installed.
It was nearly eight when they finished and Thelma began packing up the vials of blood for decontamination and collection.