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Any substance that lessens purity
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adulterant
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. That which adulterates; or reduces the purity of.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. making impure or corrupt by adding extraneous materials; "the adulterating effect of extraneous materials" [syn: adulterating ] [ant: purifying ] n. any substance that adulterates (lessens the purity or effectiveness of a substance); "it is necessary ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Adulterant \A*dul"ter*ant\, n. [L. adulterans, p. pr. of adulterare.] That which is used to adulterate anything. -- a. Adulterating; as, adulterant agents and processes.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
An adulterant is a pejorative term for a substance found within other substances such as food , fuels or chemicals, although not allowed for legal or other reasons. It will not normally be present in any specification or declared contents of the substance, ...
Usage examples of adulterant.
This heavy adulterant is shipped to the North in large quantities,--the manager said he had recently an order for a hundred thousand dollars' worth of it.
Then what it amounts to is that you plan to declare adulterants illegal, Mr.
The flowers of the Yarrow (Achillea millefolium), and other composite plants, which have been used as adulterants of Elder flowers differ still more markedly in appearance and their presence in the drug is readily detected.
They were built by inflating a free dancer's float gland, then spraying a composite - which Keller's tricorder analyzed as some chemical soup that hardened when mixed, along with a bunch of unreadable adulterants - over the balloon frame.
It is grown in India and was formerly known as 'Turkish Geranium Oil,' because it was imported into Europe via Turkey and Bulgaria as an adulterant to Otto of Roses.