Disinfection kinetics: a new hypothesis and model for the tailing of log-survivor/time curves
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- 1 May 2000
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Journal of Applied Microbiology
- Vol. 88 (5) , 907-913
- https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2672.2000.01060.x
Abstract
A new hypothesis for the understanding of chemical disinfection, which we have termed the Intrinsic Quenching hypothesis, is presented. This mechanistic treatment of disinfection kinetics is based on...Keywords
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