decontaminated

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

From Science Daily • May 8, 2024

Often buildings must be professionally cleaned or decontaminated by wildfire remediation companies.

From Salon • Aug. 14, 2023

“Our team on site in Beni has carried out a dignified and secure burial and also decontaminated the hospital where the patient stayed,” the ministry said.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 22, 2022

But it could render a huge area - potentially the size of an entire London borough - uninhabitable for weeks, until it had been fully decontaminated.

From BBC • Mar. 11, 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