🔄 Synonyms of "Contaminant"
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| Word | Definition |
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| contaminationnoun | The act or process of contaminating. |
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| contaminationnoun | The act or process of contaminating. |
| pollutantnoun | A foreign substance that makes something dirty, or impure, especially waste from human activities. |
| polluternoun | A subject that pollutes, be it a person, company, country, factory or another subject. |
| polluting | Causing pollution; having a tendency to pollute. |
| filthnoun | Dirt; foul matter; that which soils or defiles. |
| impuritynoun | The condition of being impure; because of contamination, pollution, adulteration or insufficient purification. |
| contaminated | made unfit for use by the introduction of unwholesome or undesirable elements. |
| pollutionnoun | Physical 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. |
| sedimentnoun | A collection of small particles, particularly dirt, that precipitates from a river or other body of water. |
| hydrogeologynoun | The geology of groundwater, especially concerning the physical, biological and chemical properties of its occurrence and movement. |
| contaminating | that infects or taints |
| pollutantsnoun | A foreign substance that makes something dirty, or impure, especially waste from human activities. |
| foreign bodynoun | An unwanted, intruding object or piece of matter. |
| adulterantnoun | That which adulterates, or reduces the purity of something. |
| befoulmentnoun | The act of befouling; soiling; making dirty. |
| adulteratornoun | One 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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