decimal reduction time
decimal reduction time (D value) Term used in sterilizing canned food, etc.; the duration of heat treatment required to reduce the number of micro‐organisms to one‐tenth of the initial value, with the temperature shown as a subscript, e.g. D121 is time at 121 °C.
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