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90 relations: Acoustic cleaning, Automated pool cleaner, Beach cleaning, Beauty, Brush, Carbon dioxide, Carbon dioxide cleaning, Carpet cleaning, Central vacuum cleaner, Chemical process, Chimney sweep, Cleaner, Cleaning (disambiguation), Cleaning agent, Cleaning event, Cleaning symbiosis, Cleaning validation, Cleanliness, Cleanroom, Coin cleaning, Commercial cleaning, Conservation and restoration of cultural property, Contamination control, Crime scene cleanup, Dental hygienist, Detergent, Dry cleaning, Environmental protection, Environmental remediation, Exterior cleaning, Flame cleaning, Floor cleaning, Function (engineering), Glow discharge, Graffiti removal, Green cleaning, Housekeeper (domestic worker), Housekeeping, Hygiene, Implant (medicine), Janitor, Jewellery cleaning, Laundry, Maid, Megasonic cleaning, Microorganism, Mop, Oxy-fuel welding and cutting, Paper towel, Parts cleaning, ... Expand index (40 more) »
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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Automated pool cleaner
An automated pool cleaner is a vacuum cleaner that is designed to collect debris and sediment from swimming pools with minimal human intervention.
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Beach cleaning
Beach cleaning or clean-up is the process of removing solid litter, dense chemicals, and organic debris deposited on a beach or coastline by the tide, local visitors, or tourists.
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Beauty
Beauty is commonly described as a feature of objects that makes them pleasurable to perceive.
Brush
A brush is a common tool with bristles, wire or other filaments.
Carbon dioxide
Carbon dioxide is a chemical compound with the chemical formula.
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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 is performed to remove stains, dirt, and allergens from carpets.
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Central vacuum cleaner
A central vacuum cleaner (also known as built-in or ducted) is a type of vacuum cleaner appliance installed into a building as a semi-permanent fixture.
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Chemical process
In a scientific sense, a chemical process is a method or means of somehow changing one or more chemicals or chemical compounds.
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Chimney sweep
A chimney sweep is a person who inspects then clears soot and creosote from chimneys.
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Cleaner
A cleaner or a cleaning operative is a type of industrial or domestic worker who does the cleaning.
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 or hard-surface cleaners are substances (usually liquids, powders, sprays, or granules) used to remove dirt, including dust, stains, foul odors, and clutter on surfaces.
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Cleaning event
A cleaning event is a phenomenon whereby dust is removed from solar panels, in the context of 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 chemical and microbial residues of the active, inactive or detergent 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 state of being clean and free from germs, dirt, trash, or waste, and the habit of achieving and maintaining that state.
Cleanroom
A cleanroom or clean room is an engineered space that maintains a very low concentration of airborne particulates.
Coin cleaning
Coin cleaning is the controversial process of removing undesirable substances from a coin's surface in order to make it more attractive to potential buyers.
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Commercial cleaning
Commercial cleaning companies are contracted to carry out cleaning jobs in a variety of premises.Commercial cleaners, often referred to as custodians or janitors, work in a many different types for building such as schools, banks, offices, etc.
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Conservation and restoration of cultural property
The conservation and restoration of cultural property focuses on protection and care of cultural property (tangible cultural heritage), including artworks, architecture, archaeology, and museum collections.
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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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Dental hygienist
A dental hygienist or oral hygienist is a licensed dental professional, registered with a dental association or regulatory body within their country of practice.
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Detergent
A detergent is a surfactant or a mixture of surfactants with cleansing properties when in dilute solutions.
Dry cleaning
Dry cleaning is any cleaning process for clothing and textiles using a solvent other than water.
Environmental protection
Environmental protection is the practice of protecting the natural environment by individuals, groups and governments.
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Environmental remediation
Environmental remediation is the cleanup of hazardous substances dealing with the removal, treatment and containment of pollution or contaminants from environmental media such as soil, groundwater, sediment.
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Exterior cleaning
Exterior cleaning is the process of cleaning a building's exterior part including the restoration of hygiene or removal of litter and/or dirt on the outside of the building.
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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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Function (engineering)
In engineering, a function is interpreted as a specific process, action or task that a system is able to perform.
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Glow discharge
A glow discharge is a plasma formed by the passage of electric current through a gas.
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Graffiti removal
Graffiti has long been considered an act of vandalism that signifies urban decay and a detriment to property values in an area.
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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 (also called necessary woman) is an individual responsible for the supervision of a house's cleaning staff.
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Housekeeping
Housekeeping is the management and routine support activities of running and maintaining an organized physical institution occupied or used by people, like a house, ship, hospital or factory, such as cleaning, tidying/organizing, cooking, shopping, and bill payment.
Hygiene
Hygiene is a set of practices performed to preserve health.
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, also known as a custodian, porter, cleanser, cleaner or caretaker, is a person who cleans and maintains buildings.
Jewellery cleaning
Jewelry cleaning is the practice of removing dirt or tarnish from jewelry to improve its appearance.
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Laundry
Laundry is the washing of clothing and other textiles, and, more broadly, their drying and ironing as well.
Maid
A maid, housemaid, or maidservant is a female domestic worker.
Megasonic cleaning
Megasonic cleaning is a type of acoustic cleaning related to ultrasonic cleaning.
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Microorganism
A microorganism, or microbe, is an organism of microscopic size, which may exist in its single-celled form or as a colony of cells. The possible existence of unseen microbial life was suspected from ancient times, such as in Jain scriptures from sixth century BC India. The scientific study of microorganisms began with their observation under the microscope in the 1670s by Anton van Leeuwenhoek.
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Mop
A mop (such as a floor mop) is a mass or bundle of coarse strings or yarn, etc., or a piece of cloth, sponge or other absorbent material, attached to a pole or stick.
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Oxy-fuel welding and cutting
Principle of burn cutting Oxy-fuel welding (commonly called oxyacetylene welding, oxy welding, or gas welding in the United States) and oxy-fuel cutting are processes that use fuel gases (or liquid fuels such as gasoline or petrol, diesel, biodiesel, kerosene, etc) and oxygen to weld or cut metals.
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Paper towel
A paper towel is an absorbent, disposable towel made from paper.
Parts cleaning
Parts cleaning is a step in various industrial processes, either as preparation for surface finishing or to safeguard delicate components.
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Personal grooming
Grooming (also called preening) is the art and practice of cleaning and maintaining parts of the body.
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Plasma (physics)
Plasma is one of four fundamental states of matter (the other three being solid, liquid, and gas) characterized by the presence of a significant portion of charged particles in any combination of ions or electrons.
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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.
Pressure washing
Pressure washing or power washing is the use of high-pressure water spray to remove loose paint, mold, grime, dust, mud, and dirt from surfaces and objects such as buildings, vehicles and concrete surfaces.
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Professional organizing
Decluttering means removing unnecessary items, sorting and arranging, or putting things back in place.
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Property caretaker
A property caretaker is a person, group, or organization that cares for real estate for trade or financial compensation, and sometimes as a barter for rent-free living accommodations.
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Property manager
A property manager or estate manager is a person or firm charged with operating a real estate property for a fee.
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Pyrolysis
Pyrolysis is the process of thermal decomposition of materials at elevated temperatures, often in an inert atmosphere.
Redox
Redox (reduction–oxidation or oxidation–reduction) is a type of chemical reaction in which the oxidation states of the reactants change.
Robotic vacuum cleaner
A robotic vacuum cleaner, sometimes called a robovac or a roomba as a generic trademark, is an autonomous robotic vacuum cleaner which has a limited vacuum floor cleaning system combined with sensors and robotic drives with programmable controllers and cleaning routines.
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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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Safety
Safety is the state of being "safe", the condition of being protected from harm or other danger.
Sandblasting
Sandblasting, sometimes known as abrasive blasting, 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.
Sanitation
Sanitation refers to public health conditions related to clean drinking water and treatment and disposal of human excreta and sewage.
Self-cleaning floor
A self-cleaning floor is a surface that has the ability to clean itself without external action.
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Self-cleaning glass
Self-cleaning glass is a specific type of glass with a surface that keeps itself free of dirt and grime.
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Self-cleaning oven
A self-cleaning or pyrolytic oven is an oven which uses high temperature (approximately) to burn off leftovers from baking, without the use of any chemical agents.
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Silo
A silo is a structure for storing bulk materials.
Soap
Soap is a salt of a fatty acid (sometimes other carboxylic acids) used for cleaning and lubricating products as well as other applications.
Solvation
Solvation describes the interaction of a solvent with dissolved molecules.
Sorting
Sorting refers to ordering data in an increasing or decreasing manner according to some linear relationship among the data items.
Sound
In physics, sound is a vibration that propagates as an acoustic wave through a transmission medium such as a gas, liquid or solid.
Spring cleaning
Spring cleaning is the practice of thoroughly cleaning a house in the springtime.
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Sputtering
In physics, sputtering is a phenomenon in which microscopic particles of a solid material are ejected from its surface, after the material is itself bombarded by energetic particles of a plasma or gas.
Steam cleaning
Steam cleaning involves using steam for cleaning.
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Sterilization (microbiology)
Sterilization (sterilisation) refers to any process that removes, kills, or deactivates all forms of life (particularly microorganisms such as fungi, bacteria, spores, and unicellular eukaryotic organisms) and other biological agents (such as prions or viruses) present in or on a specific surface, object, or fluid.
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Street sweeper
A street sweeper or street cleaner is a person or 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 the thorough cleaning of a room after use, 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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Toilet paper
Toilet paper (sometimes called toilet tissue, toilet roll, or bathroom tissue) is a tissue paper product primarily used to clean the anus and surrounding region of feces (after defecation), and to clean the external genitalia and perineal area of urine (after urination).
Tube cleaning
Tube cleaning describes the activity of, or device for, the cleaning and maintenance of fouled tubes.
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Ultrasonic cleaning
Ultrasonic cleaning is a process that uses ultrasound (usually from 20 to 40 kHz) to agitate a fluid, with a cleaning effect.
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Ultraviolet germicidal irradiation
Ultraviolet germicidal irradiation (UVGI) is a disinfection technique employing ultraviolet (UV) light, particularly UV-C (180–280 nm), to kill or inactivate microorganisms.
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Vacuum cleaner
A vacuum cleaner, also known simply as a vacuum, is a device that uses suction, and often agitation, in order to remove dirt and other debris from carpets and hard floors.
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Wafer (electronics)
In electronics, a wafer (also called a slice or substrate) is a thin slice of semiconductor, such as a crystalline silicon (c-Si, silicium), used for the fabrication of integrated circuits and, in photovoltaics, to manufacture solar cells.
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Washing
Washing is a method of cleaning, usually with water and soap or detergent.
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").
Wet wipe
A wet wipe, also known as a wet towel, wet one, moist towelette, disposable wipe, disinfecting wipe, or a baby wipe (in specific circumstances) is a small to medium-sized moistened piece of plastic or cloth that either comes folded and individually wrapped for convenience or, in the case of dispensers, as a large roll with individual wipes that can be torn off.
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Also known as Bond cleaning.