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In other experiments the cheese has been treated with a small amount of disinfective, which is sufficient to prevent bacteria from growing, and again ripening is found to be absolutely prevented.
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As the Earth gets warmer the disinfective role of cold weather decreases, shorter hibernation periods also means insect and animal populations also increase.
Posthuman Blues Mac 2007
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In fact, it is considered to be an overall potent urinary disinfective.
THE NATURAL REMEDY BIBLE JOHN LUST 2003
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These suppositories are disinfective as well as contraceptive, but they are at present sold for the ordinary purposes of birth-control.
Safe Marriage A Return to Sanity Ettie A. Rout 1899
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"We of Hygria can scrub it out of existence, wash it from this dimension, render it impotent through disinfective invocation.
The Lives of Felix Gunderson Sugu Althomsons 2010
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