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Cleaning

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Cleaning is the process of removing unwanted substances, such as dirt, infectious agents, and other impurities, from an object or environment. [1]

66 relations: Abrasive blasting, Acoustic cleaning, Carbon dioxide, Carbon dioxide cleaning, Carpet cleaning, Cleaner, Cleaning (coinage), Cleaning (disambiguation), Cleaning agent, Cleaning event, Cleaning symbiosis, Cleaning validation, Cleanliness, Cleanroom, Commercial cleaning, Contamination control, Crime scene cleanup, Detergent, Direct-current discharge, Dry cleaning, Environmental remediation, Exterior cleaning, Flame cleaning, Floor cleaning, Graffiti removal, Green cleaning, Housekeeper (domestic worker), Housekeeping, Hygiene, Implant (medicine), Janitor, Jewellery cleaning, Maid, Megasonic cleaning, Modern chimney cleaning, Organizing (structure), Oxy-fuel welding and cutting, Parts cleaning, Personal grooming, Plasma (physics), Plasma cleaning, Pot washing, Pressure washing, Priming (science), Pyrolysis, Redox, Roof cleaning, Sanitation, Silo cleaning, Soap, ..., Solvent, Sound, Spring cleaning, Sputter cleaning, Sputtering, Steam cleaning, Sterilization (microbiology), Street sweeper, Teeth cleaning, Terminal cleaning, Thermal cleaning, Tube cleaning, Ultrasonic cleaning, Wafer (electronics), Washing, Wet cleaning. Expand index (16 more) »

Abrasive blasting

Abrasive blasting, more commonly known as sandblasting, is the operation of forcibly propelling a stream of abrasive material against a surface under high pressure to smooth a rough surface, roughen a smooth surface, shape a surface or remove surface contaminants.

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Acoustic cleaning

Acoustic cleaning is a maintenance method used in material-handling and storage systems that handle bulk granular or particulate materials, such as grain elevators, to remove the buildup of material on surfaces.

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Carbon dioxide

Carbon dioxide (chemical formula) is a colorless gas with a density about 60% higher than that of dry air.

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Carbon dioxide cleaning

Carbon dioxide cleaning (CO2 cleaning) comprises a family of methods for parts cleaning and sterilization, using carbon dioxide in its various phases.

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Carpet cleaning

Carpet cleaning, for appearance, and the removal of stains, dirt, and allergens is done through several methods.

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Cleaner

A cleaner is a type of industrial or domestic worker who cleans homes or commercial premises for payment.

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Cleaning (coinage)

Coin cleaning refers to the process of removing undesirable substances from a coin's surface in order to make it more attractive to potential buyers.

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Cleaning (disambiguation)

Cleaning is the process of removing unwanted substances, such as dirt, infectious agents, and other impurities, from an object or environment.

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Cleaning agent

Cleaning agents are substances (usually liquids, powders, sprays, or granules) used to remove dirt, including dust, stains, bad smells, and clutter on surfaces.

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Cleaning event

A cleaning event is a phenomenon whereby dust is removed from solar panels, specifically only on exploration and science rovers on Mars, supposedly by the action of wind.

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Cleaning symbiosis

Cleaning symbiosis is a mutually beneficial association between individuals of two species, where one (the cleaner) removes and eats parasites and other materials from the surface of the other (the client).

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Cleaning validation

Cleaning validation is the methodology used to assure that a cleaning process removes residues of the active pharmaceutical ingredients of the product manufactured in a piece of equipment, the cleaning aids utilized in the cleaning process and the microbial attributes.

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Cleanliness

Cleanliness is both the abstract state of being clean and free from dirt, and the habit of achieving and maintaining that state.

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Cleanroom

A cleanroom or clean room is a situation, ordinarily utilized as a part of assembling, including of pharmaceutical items or logical research, and in addition aviation semiconductor building applications with a low level of natural toxins, for example, tiny, airborne organisms, vaporized particles, and concoction vapors.

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Commercial cleaning

Commercial cleaning is a broad term predominantly used by cleaning companies who earn an income by being contracted by individuals, businesses, or corporations to carry out cleaning jobs in a variety of premises.

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Contamination control

Contamination control is the generic term for all activities aiming to control the existence, growth and proliferation of contamination in certain areas.

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Crime scene cleanup

Crime scene cleanup is a term applied to cleanup of blood, bodily fluids, and other potentially infectious materials (OPIM).

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Detergent

A detergent is a surfactant or a mixture of surfactants with cleaning properties in dilute solutions.

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Direct-current discharge

A direct-current discharge is an electrical discharge, also known as plasma, sustained by a direct current (DC) through an ionized medium, e.g. a gas.

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Dry cleaning

Dry cleaning is any cleaning process for clothing and textiles using a chemical solvent other than water.

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Environmental remediation

Environmental remediation deals with the removal of pollution or contaminants from environmental media such as soil, groundwater, sediment, or surface water.

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Exterior cleaning

Exterior cleaning is the process of cleaning a building's exterior, including the restoration of good hygiene or removal of litter or dirt.

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Flame cleaning

Flame cleaning, also known as flame gouging, is the process of cleaning a structural steel surface by passing an intensely hot oxyacetylene flame over it.

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Floor cleaning

Floor cleaning is a major occupation throughout the world.

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Graffiti removal

Graffiti has long been a part of the social fabric in urban society.

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Green cleaning

Green cleaning refers to using cleaning methods and products with environmentally friendly ingredients and procedures which are designed to preserve human health and environmental quality.

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Housekeeper (domestic worker)

A housekeeper is an individual responsible for the supervision of a house's cleaning staff.

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Housekeeping

Housekeeping refers to the management of duties and chores involved in the running of a household, such as cleaning, cooking, home maintenance, shopping, laundry and bill pay.

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Hygiene

Hygiene is a set of practices performed to preserve health.

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Implant (medicine)

An implant is a medical device manufactured to replace a missing biological structure, support a damaged biological structure, or enhance an existing biological structure.

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Janitor

A janitor (American English, Scottish English), janitress (female), custodian, porter, cleaner or caretaker is a person who cleans and maintains buildings such as hospitals, schools, and residential accommodation.

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Jewellery cleaning

Jewelry cleaning is the practice of removing dirt or tarnish from jewelry to improve its appearance.

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Maid

A maid, or housemaid or maidservant, is a female domestic worker.

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Megasonic cleaning

Megasonic cleaning is a type of acoustic cleaning, related to ultrasonic cleaning.

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Modern chimney cleaning

Today, chimney sweeps still maintain a thriving new industry in many parts of the world.

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Organizing (structure)

Organizing (also spelled organising) for structure is the act of rearranging elements following one or more rules.

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Oxy-fuel welding and cutting

Principle of the burn cutting Oxy-fuel welding (commonly called oxyacetylene welding, oxy welding, or gas welding in the U.S.) and oxy-fuel cutting are processes that use fuel gases and oxygen to weld and cut metals, respectively.

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Parts cleaning

Parts cleaning is essential to many industrial processes, as a prelude to surface finishing or to protect sensitive components.

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Personal grooming

Personal grooming (also called preening) is the art of cleaning, grooming, and maintaining parts of the body.

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Plasma (physics)

Plasma (Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek English Lexicon, on Perseus) is one of the four fundamental states of matter, and was first described by chemist Irving Langmuir in the 1920s.

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Plasma cleaning

Plasma cleaning is the removal of impurities and contaminants from surfaces through the use of an energetic plasma or dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) plasma created from gaseous species.

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Pot washing

Pot washing is the process of cleaning low to heavily baked-on items off of restaurant kitchen food equipment, including pots, pans, trays, tubs and more.

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Pressure washing

Pressure washing or power washing is the use of high-pressure water spray to remove loose paint, mold, grime, dust, mud, chewing gum and dirt from surfaces and objects such as buildings, vehicles and concrete surfaces.

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Priming (science)

Priming is a cleaning and preparation process that involves cleaning scientific equipment with the same liquid chemical it will come into contact with during the experiment.

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Pyrolysis

Pyrolysis is the thermal decomposition of materials at elevated temperatures in an inert atmosphere.

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Redox

Redox (short for reduction–oxidation reaction) (pronunciation: or) is a chemical reaction in which the oxidation states of atoms are changed.

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Roof cleaning

Roof cleaning is the process of removing algae, mold, mildew, lichen and moss from roofs.

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Sanitation

Sanitation refers to public health conditions related to clean drinking water and adequate treatment and disposal of human excreta and sewage.

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Silo cleaning

Silo cleaning is a process to maximize the efficiency of storage silos that hold bulk powders or granules.

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Soap

Soap is the term for a salt of a fatty acid or for a variety of cleansing and lubricating products produced from such a substance.

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Solvent

A solvent (from the Latin solvō, "loosen, untie, solve") is a substance that dissolves a solute (a chemically distinct liquid, solid or gas), resulting in a solution.

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Sound

In physics, sound is a vibration that typically propagates as an audible wave of pressure, through a transmission medium such as a gas, liquid or solid.

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Spring cleaning

Spring cleaning is the practice of thoroughly cleaning a house in the springtime.

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Sputter cleaning

Sputter cleaning is the cleaning of a solid surface in a vacuum by using physical sputtering of the surface.

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Sputtering

Sputtering is a process whereby particles are ejected from a solid target material due to bombardment of the target by energetic particles, particularly gas ions in a laboratory.

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Steam cleaning

Steam cleaning involves using steam for cleaning.

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Sterilization (microbiology)

Sterilization (or sterilisation) refers to any process that eliminates, removes, kills, or deactivates all forms of life and other biological agents (such as fungi, bacteria, viruses, spore forms, prions, unicellular eukaryotic organisms such as Plasmodium, etc.) present in a specified region, such as a surface, a volume of fluid, medication, or in a compound such as biological culture media.

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Street sweeper

A street sweeper or street cleaner may refer to a person's occupation, or a machine that cleans streets.

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Teeth cleaning

Teeth cleaning is part of oral hygiene and involves the removal of dental plaque from teeth with the intention of preventing cavities (dental caries), gingivitis, and periodontal disease.

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Terminal cleaning

Terminal cleaning is a cleaning method used in healthcare environments to control the spread of infections.

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Thermal cleaning

Thermal cleaning is a combined process involving pyrolysis and oxidation.

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Tube cleaning

For the article about the tube cleaning of steam locomotive boilers see: Tube cleaning (locomotive).

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Ultrasonic cleaning

Ultrasonic cleaning is a process that uses ultrasound (usually from 20–400 kHz) and an appropriate cleaning solvent (sometimes ordinary tap water) to clean items.

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Wafer (electronics)

A wafer, also called a slice or substrate, is a thin slice of semiconductor material, such as a crystalline silicon, used in electronics for the fabrication of integrated circuits and in photovoltaics for conventional, wafer-based solar cells.

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Washing

Washing is a method of cleaning, usually with water and often some kind of soap or detergent.

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Wet cleaning

Wet cleaning refers to methods of professional cleaning that, in contrast to traditional dry cleaning, avoids the use of chemical solvents, the most common of which is tetrachloroethylene (commonly called perchloroethylene or "perc").

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleaning

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