- plural of contaminant.
contaminants
Example Sentences
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The agency has said it collected over 28,000 air samples and found no ongoing exposure in the East Palestine community from contaminants released by the derailment and subsequent cleanup.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
The same basic approach could also be adapted for environmental monitoring, where researchers often need to detect extremely small concentrations of contaminants mixed into much larger volumes of water.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
Now, parents might also be worrying about harmful contaminants in their kids’ snack foods.
From Slate ● Sep. 14, 2026
The treatments help to force out some of the harmful contaminants in firefighters' bodies, she claims, and can have short-term side effects immediately after treatment.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
And what of the outflow of scores of other rivers, carrying contaminants perhaps equally lethal?
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
