AGENTS OF DISINFECTION
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Physical Agents
The physical agents of disinfection are sunlight, electricity, pressure, dry heat, burning, boiling, and steam.
Chemical Agents
Chemical agents of disinfection are divided into two divisions—gaseous and liquid disinfectants. The gaseous disinfectants are: formaldehyde gas, sulphur dioxide gas, hydrocyanic acid gas, chlorin, oxygen, and oxone.
Some of the most important liquid disinfectants are metallic salts, bichloride of mercury, silver and zinc salts, coal-tar creosote, carbolic acid, phenol, lysol, creolin and formalin.