biochemical oxygen demand

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biochemical oxygen demand

biochemical oxygen demand (countable and uncountable, plural biochemical oxygen demands)

The amount of oxygen needed by aerobic microorganisms to decompose all the organic matter in a sample of water; it is used as a measure of pollution.

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