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Phenol‐bearing waste waters continue to be an area of wide concern for various industries faced with the task of cleaning up effluents containing relatively small amounts of these materials. The microbiological aspects of the degradation of these materials in pure culture and waste treatment plants is reviewed. Actual operating experiences at three plants of The Dow Chemical Company, where phenols are present in combination with other widely varying waste constituents, are discussed.
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