How to Use contaminant in a Sentence
contaminant
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The contaminants in the burn scars may pose a threat for years.
—Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2025
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The contaminants travel through the stalk of the plant into the leaves and flowers.
—Aria Bendix, NBC News, 30 Aug. 2023
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The agency ordered the cities to test the parks for contaminants that could pose a risk to public health and wildlife.
—Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2024
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On the first night, temperatures in the teens and very light winds would have kept airborne contaminants close to the ground over the town.
—Jill Neimark, STAT, 21 Feb. 2023
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The cap will be installed at the site to prevent the contaminants from spreading.
—Michael Slaten, Orange County Register, 9 Oct. 2024
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But what happens with the contaminants that go along with that?
—Patrick Sisson, Curbed, 9 Oct. 2018
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The study also noted that the longer the steeping time, the more contaminants were adsorbed.
—Vanessa Etienne, People.com, 26 Feb. 2025
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Even loose dirt left on one’s boots from a trip to a farm can be a source of contaminants to the local flora and fauna.
—Erica Kasper, WIRED, 15 July 2023
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The city is using a computer model to track the movement of the plume of contaminant through the river.
—Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA TODAY, 27 Mar. 2023
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The argon would have to be chilled to –186°C and contaminants reduced to levels of parts in a trillion.
—Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 8 Aug. 2019
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All the contaminants remain on the other side of the cell, where they can be collected and disposed of.
—IEEE Spectrum, 12 June 2023
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Wastewater plants are not equipped to deal with this kind of contaminant, according to the study.
—Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 24 July 2023
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In lab tests, Semprini found that the beads removed more than 99% of the contaminants.
—oregonlive, 26 Mar. 2020
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In the clean rooms, magnets are finished with the help of robots, such as this blue one in the foreground, to remove contaminants.
—IEEE Spectrum, 15 July 2023
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But in no time at all, that river swelled with contaminants.
—Richard Horan, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 July 2018
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Even in the trace amounts found in food, these contaminants can alter the developing brain and erode a child's IQ.
—Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 18 Oct. 2019
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New wells were put in to function like drinking straws, pulling the water up and away, avoiding the contaminants.
—Alicia Acuna, Fox News, 3 July 2018
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And while thousands of tons of contaminants have since been removed, it is still being cleaned up.
—Tatiana Schlossberg, The Atlantic, 22 Sep. 2019
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The system pumps water through the membrane, whose tiny pores allow the water to pass through, but trap the PFAS and other contaminants.
—Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 18 July 2023
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The process didn’t use heat or pressure, so contaminants didn’t melt into the plastic and could be filtered out.
—Saabira Chaudhuri, WSJ, 12 Dec. 2018
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So the team also wanted to see whether the reaction would still work if there were contaminants.
—Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 21 Sep. 2024
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The smoke pouring from the stacks, and clouds of contaminants were both going into Norwood and settling there back into the 1940s.
—Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 20 Mar. 2024
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Each bottle seals tight and is designed to keep the product fresh, potent, and contaminant-free.
—Dallas News, 30 Jan. 2023
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However, the decline of the whales can’t be pegged, experts say, to contaminants alone.
—New York Times, 9 July 2018
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It is believed that much of the contaminant already made its way through the Wixom treatment plant by the time the release was discovered.
—Keith Matheny, Detroit Free Press, 2 Aug. 2022
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And the industry’s contaminants in the Bay Area have rendered a number of sites toxic.
—Rakesh Kumar, Fortune, 26 Dec. 2023
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If a contaminant is found in one pot, the entire batch is discarded.
—The Economist, 14 Sep. 2019
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In what contaminant the benzene is present was still unclear.
—Keith Matheny, Detroit Free Press, 4 Sep. 2021
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There’s a chance the team will find chick numbers are dropping in waters with higher levels of the contaminant.
—Leslie Nemo, Discover Magazine, 17 June 2021
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To her surprise, the results showed almost no contaminants—aside from slight alkalinity and the presence of carbonate.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 31 Jan. 2025
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