bacteriological
Americanadjective
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They cannot be moved to cooler river waters until researchers rule out a bacteriological cause of the deaths.
From Reuters • Oct. 2, 2023
“If the material is composted, then we don’t have the bacteriological issues because that’s what the composting does — it kills the bacteria,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2023
Scottish microbiologist Alexander Fleming was studying “a purely academic bacteriological problem” when he stumbled on penicillin.
From Scientific American • Sep. 5, 2022
The reporter noted that Salisbury, the town where Skripal was lived and fell sick, is about a 20-minute drive from the Porton Down laboratories where Britain developed chemical and bacteriological agents.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 12, 2018
He also stated that the bacteriological experiments of American workers were open to criticism and that they employed antiquated methods.
From Chlorination of Water by Race, Joseph
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