contact time
Touch duration measure
Contact time is how long a substance must remain in contact with a surface to be effective.
The term appears most often with disinfectants and cleaning products, which need adequate contact time to kill germs: The bleach solution requires ten minutes of contact time.
In water treatment, it refers to how long water stays exposed to a disinfecting agent.
- exposureState of being unprotected
- durationLength of existence
- dwellInhabit a place
- touchPerceiving through physical contact
- surfaceOutermost boundary layer
surface cleaner · hand sanitizer · sanitizer · disinfectant · absorption · skin · reaction · soak · rinse · chemical · penetration · seconds · minutes · application · effective · residue · wet · spray
contact timetime apart
Period of separation
absence · downtime · disconnection · isolation period · off-time
contact timenon-contact
Without physical touch
isolation period · disengagement · alone time · withdrawal · avoidance
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