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Residents might intermittently smell MMA, which emits a fruity odor, throughout the cleanup, but health officials said it will be only at concentrations below any threshold that would prompt health concerns.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 27, 2026

Their growth was inhibited at concentrations as low as 2.5 milligrams per milliliter.

From Science Daily • Jun. 23, 2026

It exists in the ground, though generally at very low concentrations.

From BBC • Jun. 16, 2026

Forty years later, Pope Pius XI, in “Quadragesimo Anno,” criticized concentrations of capital amid the widespread destitution during the Great Depression, but he also criticized the totalitarian responses sweeping Europe.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026

Even more important, these hydrogen bonds were present at very low DNA concentrations, strongly hinting that the bonds linked together bases in the same molecule.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson