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pollutant
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE chemical ▪ Transport and Chemical Transformation of pollutants in the Troposphere. ▪ Compounding scarcity is the growing problem of water degradation caused by saltwater intrusions, chemical pollutants , and human ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A foreign substance that makes something dirty, or impure, especially waste from human activities.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. waste matter that contaminates the water or air or soil
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A pollutant is a substance or energy introduced into the environment that has undesired effects, or adversely affects the usefulness of a resource. A pollutant may cause long- or short-term damage by changing the growth rate of plant or animal species, ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1888, from pollute + -ant . Related: Pollutants .
Usage examples of pollutant.
And certainly any body flung into one of the excrementitious rivers surrounding Manhattan would never survive the pollutants.
But where pollutants from humanplayer stay in pool, use chlorine donor to obtain efficient disinfectant residual: Sodium Hypochlorite dispensed via automatic dosing pump.
And thanks to the aeroplankton, everyone now had to own, and wear during the aeroplankton storms, filter-masks conveniently designed to filter out the microorganism and forty-seven varieties of industrial pollutants.
We lost some species, mostly from overfishing and from the dumping of pollutants and washed-off topsoil in the shallow waters around the coastlines.
By the way, using semiconductors for the photocatalytic destruction of water pollutants has also been a huge research focus over the last couple of decades.
It was the kind of early spring day that made Vancouverites, who conveniently forgot the 250 days of rain a year, unbearably smug about their weather-winds off the ocean had blown away clouds and pollutants and the sun shone brilliantly down through a crystal clear sky.
The prime pollutants are phosphates, and the chief culprit is Big Sugar.
In fact, the domes seem to have more pollutants inside than they do outside.
Kathryn noticed the green glow from the environmental readings remained steady as she scanned the entire planet-meaning there were few pollutants in the air.
A lengthy stop was at the enormous electrostatic dust collectorsrequired under environmental laws-whose purpose was to remove burned fly ash which otherwise would belch from smokestacks as a pollutant.
I know for a fact that the amount in silica and copper and arsenicals in your body is only a fraction of what it is in ours and that’s because there aren’t industrial pollutants in your air or water.
But I haven't been able to isolate the synthetic chemical pollutants that cause the dinoflagellates to run crazy.
But the only organic tools in Esganikan’s armory were the specialized bacteria that carried out bioremediation, devouring pollutants and making toxins and metals harmless.
So what if the ozone layer is being eaten away by pollutants in aerosol cans?
In a sense those laboring to save one square inch of wilderness, rescue one caddis fly larva from pollutants, were in the deepest sense public servants.