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An area near the site remained under a shelter-in-place order as emergency responders continued to monitor and decontaminate the hazards.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 22, 2026

One email asked whether clinics could decontaminate rooms where people with measles had just been if the clinics were too small to follow the CDC’s recommendation to keep those rooms empty for two hours.

From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2025

That’s sent water treatment operators scrambling to find ways to decontaminate water supplies without breaking the bank.

From Science Magazine ● Nov. 20, 2024

The MIT team found that this process could effectively decontaminate water with low concentrations of lead.

From Science Daily ● May 15, 2024

They want our planets, and they didn't want to have to decontaminate them when they took them over.

From Shock Absorber by H. R. van Dongen

"We created DecontPro, a statistical model that decontaminates two sources of contamination that were observed empirically in CITE-seq data," explains corresponding author Joshua Campbell, PhD, associate professor of medicine at the School.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 17, 2023

When a uranium mill shuts down, here is what's supposed to happen: The company demolishes the buildings, decontaminates the surrounding soil and water, and encases the waste to stop it from leaking cancer-causing pollution.

From Salon ● Dec. 6, 2022

A healthcare worker, who volunteered in the Ebola response, decontaminates his colleague in the eastern Congolese town of Beni in the Democratic Republic of Congo, October 8, 2019.

From Reuters ● Sep. 27, 2022

A doctor who cares for people with COVID-19 in Tijuana, Mexico, decontaminates his clothing and other items before entering his apartment.Credit:

From Nature ● Jul. 23, 2020

Anyone coming into the Mount Airy ranch house decontaminates in the basement first.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 3, 2020

Officials have decontaminated the facility’s inmate housing as a precaution and medical staff are monitoring prisoners and staff for possible symptoms, The Mercury News reported.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2026

When reused, the decontaminated robots still picked up plastic and microbes, albeit smaller amounts of both.

From Science Daily ● May 8, 2024

In hospitals, his system uses electromagnetic fields to track surgical instruments, ensuring they are decontaminated and sterilised properly, and available in the right place at the right time.

From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2023

Then the site is cleaned and decontaminated, a process that includes removing organic materials like manure and chicken feed that can harbor virus particles.

From Salon ● Nov. 19, 2022

Seventeen crew members who had ridden in the helicopters had to be decontaminated, scrubbed from head to foot to remove any radioactive particles.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland

The new law sets France "the goal of decontaminating soil and water polluted" by the pesticide, according to a copy on the parliament's website.

From Barron's ● Jun. 2, 2026

Workers at Catalyst Refiners Inc. in Institute, W.Va., were cleaning and decontaminating a metal processing site—in preparation for closing it down—when a chemical reaction created dangerous hydrogen sulfide gas around 9:30 a.m.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 22, 2026

A restoration team has also begun decontaminating the building, she said, but the process will take at least two weeks to a month.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2025

When dealing with the aftermath of a wildfire, Huml said he starts by decontaminating the attic, ripping out soot-infested insulation and using a spray-on odor sealant on porous wood.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 16, 2025

If we do find such a substance we still have the problem of decontaminating existing metals.

From The Year When Stardust Fell by Raymond F. Jones