noun
definition
The act of fumigating, or applying smoke or vapor, as for disinfection.
definition
Vapor raised in the process of fumigating.
Examples of fumigation in a Sentence
Among other things Hales invented a "sea-gauge" for sounding, and processes for distilling fresh from sea water, for preserving corn from weevils by fumigation with brimstone, and for salting animals whole by passing brine into their arteries.
It is of a pale brown colour, transparent, brittle, and in consequence of its agreeable odour is used for fumigation and in perfumery.
Powdered, it has little effect upon the skin, but in ointment or used by fumigation it has local therapeutic properties.
On the other hand, we know that in the first Christian services held in the catacombs under the city of Rome, incense was burnt as a sanitary fumigation at least.
The process of fumigation lasts from seven to nine months, and during it the tobacco acquires its black colour and peculiar flavour.
After some unfortunate experiences arrangements were made in 1917 for the fumigation of the tobacco before shipment, with the result that the crop thereafter, in normal circumstances, commanded a high price in the markets of Great Britain.
Used animal cages should be rendered non- infective by disinfection, fumigation or heat treatment (steaming or autoclaving ).