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Environmental Issues
Water Pollution: Biochemical Oxygen Demand
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- Definition of BOD
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2001 AIPMT 1 question
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What is B.O.D. : -BOD (biochemical oxygen demand) is the amount of oxygen consumed by microorganisms (bacteria) in decomposing (oxidising) the organic matter present in a litre of water, usually measured over 5 days at 20 °C.
It is a measure of the amount of biodegradable organic pollution: the more organic waste (e.g. sewage), the higher the BOD.
So BOD is the amount of $O_2$ utilised by micro-organisms for decomposition.