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Wildlife threat, briefly
Answer for the clue "Wildlife threat, briefly ", 3 letters:
pcb
Alternative clues for the word pcb
- Chem. source of the Hudson's River's Superfund site status
- Organic river pollutant, for short
- Environmental pollutant, for short
- Chemical pollutant, for short
- Banned toxic compound, for short
- Pollutant banned by the EPA
- Banned toxic pollutant, for short
- Controversial chemical
- Outlawed pollutant, for short
Word definitions for pcb in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1966, from polychlorinated biphenyl .
Usage examples of pcb.
Maybe there was some really big, old shark that had been hanging out in the Harbor for decades, eating bottom fish, building up incredibly high levels of bioconcentrated PCBs.
The level of PCBs in these samples was no different from those taken anywhere else in the Harbor.
You heard from Christopher that I was hanging out on Spectacle Island, and you were afraid that I'd discover the old Basco transformers leaking PCBs there.
One of the things I said [at the banquet] was that the General Electric Company that loaded up the Hudson River with PCBs sure as hell wasn't the company that I worked for.
Computers need electrical transformers, some of which are made with PCBs that like to vaporize and ooze out of a computer's ventilation slots, causing miscarriages and other foul omens.