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Meanings of contaminants in English
Chemical substances that are not regulated but are introduced in the environment due to various anthropogenic activities and can potentially harm the ecosystem.
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These come from legal or illegal medicines, as well as environmental contaminants.
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Refining oil contaminants are complex and cause serious harm to the environment.
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The team is also testing the island's water and soil for contaminants.
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Toxicity is often tested in the absence of other expected co-occurring contaminants.
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The metalloid arsenic and the chlorinated insecticide endosulfan are common environmental contaminants.
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Scan the shoreline or check upstream for contaminants such as dead animals.
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Groundwater tested in Potchefstroom was also found to contain the tiny contaminants.
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This keeps poor-tasting yeasts and other contaminants out and ensures shelf stability.
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You have biological contaminants and you have poisonous contaminants-allsorts of contaminants.
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Therefore water carrying an anthropogenic contaminant dilutes water carrying geogenic contaminants.
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Results revealed that advisories associated a dozen contaminants with specific adverse health effects.
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Activists say the spring water is bursting with dangerous toxic contaminants.
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Human health implications of environmental contaminants in Arctic Canada: a review.
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Often, these contaminants find their way out of parcels and into water sources.
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The fish meal produced complied with EU regulations for these contaminants.
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Riastap, as a manufactured plasma product, has been treated to remove possible contaminants.
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