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is a measure of amount of dissolved oxygen required for decomposition of waste organic matter from water

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Biological Oxygen Demand is defined as the amount of dissolved oxygen required by aerobic microorganisms to breakdown the organic materials in a sample of water at a specific temperature & time frame.

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