phenol coefficient


phenol coefficient

noun

Definition of PHENOL COEFFICIENT

: a number relating the germicidal efficiency of a compound to phenol regarded as having an arbitrarily assigned value of 1 toward specified bacteria (as typhoid bacteria) under specified conditions

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