Crossword clues for dioxin
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1919, from dioxy- + chemical suffix -in (2). All the compounds in the group are characterized by two oxygen atoms.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context organic chemistry English) any of a broad range of toxic or carcinogenic halogenated polycyclic compounds that occur as byproducts of herbicides 2 (context organic compound English) the parent compound, dibenzo-''p''-dioxin, in which two benzene rings are connected vio two oxygen atoms; oxanthrene 3 (context organic compound English) the unsaturated six-membered heterocycle having four carbon atoms, two oxygen atoms and two double bonds
WordNet
n. any of several toxic or carcinogenic hydrocarbons that occur as impurities in herbicides
Wikipedia
Dioxin may refer to:
- Dioxins and dioxin-like compounds, a diverse range of chemical compounds which are known to exhibit “dioxin-like” toxicity
- 2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorodibenzodioxin (TCDD), the prototypical example of the above class, often referred to simply as "dioxin"
In chemistry, a dioxin is a heterocyclic 6-membered ring, where two carbon atoms have been replaced by oxygen atoms:
- 1,2-Dioxin
- 1,4-Dioxin
Usage examples of "dioxin".
Seveso, Italy, released a cloud of dioxin that blew over much of the city.
Twenty years after the explosion, I walked in the public park that now sits on top of the dioxin contamination.
Times Beach, Missouri, a man had sprayed some dioxin on some dirt roads, hoping to hold down the dust.
The activist scientists who fed reporters the deadly-dioxin scenario were not about to tell us that there was no proof dioxin hurts people.
The terror and dislocation surely hurt people more than dioxin buried in soil ever could have.
In America, less dioxin, buried in soil, created a hugely expensive fortified wasteland.
The poor bastard who sat there listening to me talking to Esmerelda about her grandchildren, talking to my roommates about which movie we should go see, explaining to reporters the difference between dioxin and dioxane - he must have been bored out of his mind.
He was brandishing an empty Doritos bag and for a minute I was afraid he wanted me to check it for dioxins or some other granola nightmare.
Alan happened to know that at this very spot, Boner Chemical was dumping dioxins into the sewers.
Other children grew up with scarred faces and bodies from the outbreak of chloracne, the skin eruptions common to dioxin exposure.
ERA, in the battle against dioxin and Agent Orange and other terrible poisons being injected into our bodies without our consent, in the fight against genocide against our yellow brothers, black brothers, and our Third World brothers, who hold the moral hopes of all mankind, we must never surrender.
The disclosures about the Pentagon's plans for a protracted nuclear war, as if dioxin, killer bees, and the failure of the social security system weren't enough, make me feel like it's time to relocate.
Many of the trees were over a hundred years old, planted to scrub the London air, locking up the cadmium, dioxin and lead in striated layers of cellulose.