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Contaminant

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contaminationnounThe act or process of contaminating.

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contaminationnounThe act or process of contaminating.
pollutantnounA foreign substance that makes something dirty, or impure, especially waste from human activities.
polluternounA subject that pollutes, be it a person, company, country, factory or another subject.
pollutingCausing pollution; having a tendency to pollute.
filthnounDirt; foul matter; that which soils or defiles.
impuritynounThe condition of being impure; because of contamination, pollution, adulteration or insufficient purification.
contaminatedmade unfit for use by the introduction of unwholesome or undesirable elements.
pollutionnounPhysical contamination, now especially the contamination of the environment by harmful substances, or by disruptive levels of noise, light etc.
infectious(pathology, typically of a person) Able to infect others; capable of transmitting pathogens.
bioaccumulationnoun(biology) The process by which substances accumulate in the tissues of living organisms; used especially of toxic substances that accumulate by means of a food chain.
sedimentnounA collection of small particles, particularly dirt, that precipitates from a river or other body of water.
hydrogeologynounThe geology of groundwater, especially concerning the physical, biological and chemical properties of its occurrence and movement.
contaminatingthat infects or taints
pollutantsnounA foreign substance that makes something dirty, or impure, especially waste from human activities.
foreign bodynounAn unwanted, intruding object or piece of matter.
adulterantnounThat which adulterates, or reduces the purity of something.
befoulmentnounThe act of befouling; soiling; making dirty.
adulteratornounOne who or that which adulterates, or harms the purity of, something.
impurationnoun(obsolete) The act of making impure; defilement; obscuration.
dirtnoun(chiefly US) Soil or earth.

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