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Q. Measuring Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD) is a method used for

AIPMTAIPMT 2012Environmental Issues

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Biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) is the amount of oxygen taken up by microorganisms that decompose organic waste matter in water. It is therefore used as a measure of the amount of certain types of organic pollutant in water.