biochemical oxygen demand

English

Noun

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

  1. 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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