contamination
污染,污染问题,污染物,污染情况
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- : the act of contaminating, or of making something impure or unsuitable by contact with something unclean, bad, etc.
- : the act of contaminating, or of rendering something harmful or unusable by the addition of radioactive material: the contamination of food following a nuclear attack.
- : the state of being contaminated: The manufacturer recalled the product because of possible salmonella contamination.
- : Rare. something that contaminates a place or substance, as by making it impure, unsuitable, harmful, or unusable; a contaminant.
- : Linguistics. an alternation in a linguistic form due to the influence of a related form, as the replacement in English of earlier femelle with female through the influence of male.the process of forming blends.Compare blend.
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Similar contamination problems occurred after the Tubbs Fire in Santa Rosa, and in Paradise after the Camp Fire, as E&E News Reports.
San Diego sued the energy company in 2007, claiming the city should recoup over $100 million in damages for the gas contamination.
More mundanely, the signal could come from contamination inside the experiment.
They expected to see roughly 232 of these recoils, caused by known sources of background contamination.
Srubar’s group worked in a lab where contamination is easy to avoid.
Shoddy well construction is considered a primary cause of groundwater contamination at drilling sites.
The fact that the first true contamination happened in the controlled environment of a hospital will do little to calm nerves.
There is one theory that they were both exposed by a Liberian worker in the contamination crew who fell ill.
There has been a lot of concern about contamination of the evidence at the site.
Could modern human DNA contamination affect the resultant radiocarbon date?
There's no need for you to suffer any further contamination by mingling with such persons as are yonder.
Taboos of first chapter indicate that in the early ages the fear of by woman predominated.