Meanings
nounmonochloramine (countable and uncountable, plural monochloramines)
plural monochloramines
- countableuncountablechemistryThe chloramine NH₂Cl
Next generation sequencing has successfully captured driving influence of on-site monochloramine to bacterial ecology in a hospital’s hot water system [29 ,30 ] and also served to map point-of-use tap water microbiome across seventeen cities along the Arkansas and lower Mississippi rivers [2 ].
2015 October 24, “Impact of Water Chemistry, Pipe Material and Stagnation on the Building Plumbing Microbiome”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
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