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contamination

[kuhn-tam-uh-nay-shuhn] / kənˌtæm əˈneɪ ʃən /


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At NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, researchers prepared the samples for detailed X-ray imaging while taking special precautions to prevent contamination.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026

Subsequent environmental testing strengthened that evidence, without conclusively establishing how the contamination occurred.

From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2026

In explaining the gap, Yi describes what he calls a contamination cycle: Census figures were adjusted upward using education and household registration data that had themselves been exaggerated.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

“By putting NOAA’s scientists and our leading research institutions to work mapping the contamination, tracking how it moves, and exploring cleanup through bioremediation, we can finally address this problem head-on.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

The fresh and dried fish; the fat, oil, or meat from beaver, beluga, caribou, moose, oogruk, polar bear, and walrus; cranberries, salmonberries and wild rhubarb all had so far escaped contamination.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

Nephew said if time was short, the U.S. could also seek to dilute the material on-site by mixing it with natural uranium or destroy it, although that could cause chemical contaminations in the area.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 15, 2026

The potential applications could include antimicrobial spray or coating to control foodborne pathogen contaminations at both pre-harvest and post-harvest stages, the researchers said.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 29, 2024

Flanked by Ohio lawmakers and officials from his agency, he stressed that the tests were accurate and had yet to show serious risks of contaminations.

From New York Times ● Feb. 16, 2023

Morocco on Saturday went so far as to ban all arrivals from China, regardless of nationality, “to avoid a new wave of contaminations in Morocco and all its consequences.”

From Washington Post ● Jan. 4, 2023

He was too wise a man not to know that one of the greatest burdens that wealth imposed, was the saving of one’s children from its contaminations.

From Philip Dru Administrator : a Story of Tomorrow 1920 - 1935 by Edward Mandell House


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