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disinfectants

n. (plural of disinfectant English)

Usage examples of "disinfectants".

The air was redolent of disinfectants and medicinal odors, indicating that Joanna might have been imprisoned twelve years ago in one of these second-floor rooms.

He told Maria to fill two quart bottles with kerosene, added a package of synthetic honey and a whole assortment of disinfectants, and listened, nodding absently, as my grandmother listed all the many things that had burned down in Bissau and Bissau Quarry during the fighting.

In the first place, there were practically no medicines and no disinfectants in the shack.

Overlapping the smell of disinfectants came the sour, musty odors of mold and rat droppings.

The space stank of disinfectants and the ersatz-garden effect of air purifier perfumes.

The space stank of disinfectants and the ersatz-garden effect of air purifier perfumes.

There were at hand plenty of those strong, specially prepared soaps and other disinfectants constantly used by the women of their kind who still cling to cleanliness and health.

Industrial uses of it range from the making of ceramics, special glass, washing powders and disinfectants, to the manufacturing of abrasives and rocket fuels.

Walking off to a cabinet, he began to collect spray bottles of disinfectants, rags and the other odds and ends he used for cleaning.

As she slid the last of the disinfectants into the cabinet she caught sight of something else, lying beside the brandy.

She finished putting the disinfectants into the cabinet, firmly closed the door, and bidding Didi a quick farewell headed out of the sitting room onto the landing.

It was aseptic rather than antiseptic, too grey and too drenched with disinfectants for anything to grow, but a grimy, cold little spot for all that.

Even without the disinfectants, it was too dispirited a place for any but the most determined of germs, and nothing around here seemed all that determined.