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Toxic pollutant banned since the 1970s
Answer for the clue "Toxic pollutant banned since the 1970s ", 3 letters:
pcb
Alternative clues for the word pcb
- EPA-banned chemical
- Toxic pollutant banned by the EPA
- Highly toxic pollutant, for short
- Chem. source of the Hudson's River's Superfund site status
- Pollutant found in transformers
- Toxic environmental pollutant, for short
- Banned organic compound, for short
- Banned chem. contaminant
- Pollutant banned in the U.S. in 1979
- Toxic compound, for short
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.