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Banned toxic compound, for short
Answer for the clue "Banned toxic compound, for short ", 3 letters:
pcb
Alternative clues for the word pcb
- Chemical contaminant, for short
- Chemical formerly used in carbonless copy paper manufacture
- E.P.A.-proscribed compound, for short
- Banned organic compound, for short
- Chemical banned by the EPA in 1977
- Toxic pollutant banned since the 1970s
- Toxic pollutant, for short
- Banned chemical compound
- Chemical pollutant
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.