Any substance that lessens the purity or effectiveness of a substance.
Making impure or corrupt by adding extraneous materials.
1 As an adulterant it wears shabby and loses its brightness.
2 The most common adulterant of the more valuable oils, like olive oil, is cotton-seed oil.
3 It is often added to, as an adulterant , or substituted for the true Almond oil.
4 Dilute acetic acid, obtained from wood, is very frequently used as an adulterant of vinegar.
5 PLSR-based concentration mapped images visually characterized the adulterant (apricot) concentration in the almond powder.
6 A partial least square regression (PLSR) model was further developed to predict adulterant concentrations in almond powder.
7 Even with a body that had been in the ground for ten months, an adulterant could still be detectable.
8 Amyl alcohol, introduced as an adulterant , is an extremely dangerous addition to ordinary alcohol, in whatever form it is presented.
9 The roots of this, after being ground and roasted, are used either as a substitute or an adulterant for coffee.
10 If the ratio falls below 3.6, stearic acid or resin has been used as the adulterant .
11 It decreases the likelihood of people being harmed by some adulterant when they simply wanted to get high and not die.
12 A large amount of water is considered an adulterant ; ordinarily molasses contains from 20 to 33 per cent.
13 The Turkish Government tried to check the spread of cottonseed oil by calling it an adulterant and prohibiting its mixture with olive oil.
14 On account of its low cost it is sometimes used as an adulterant of white lead, which is also a heavy white substance.
15 Harmful preservatives and adulterants in foods, such as saccharin, should also be avoided.
16 The tea was frightful stuff-nottea at all, but cheap adulterants colored poisonously.
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