contaminated

[US]/kən'tæmineitid/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

v. caused impurity.

Phrases & Collocations

contaminated food supply

contaminated area

Example Sentences

be contaminated by bureaucratism

a wound contaminated by bacteria

The river was contaminated with waste.

Don't be contaminated by bureaucratism.

The site was found to be contaminated by radioactivity.

Fomite. An inanimate object that is contaminated with infectious agents.

Large areas of land have been contaminated by the leakage from the nuclear reactor.

a new tax could be levied on industry to pay for cleaning up contaminated land.

dioxins get into mothers' milk through contaminated food.

The bacteria contaminated mostly were gram-positive organisms such as Bacillus species, Staphylococcus epidermidis and Bacterium diphtheroid.

Phytoremediation is a new technology developed recently for the remediation of Hg contaminated soil, in which, phytoextraction is a kind of most favorable phytoremediation techniques.

Schistosome infected people or other mammals from the discharge of faecal egg, if manure contaminated the water, eggs were brought into the water, hatched miracidium in the water.

Volcanic rocks of Tamulangou-Jixiangfeng cycle in Late Jurassic are alkaline-subalkaline series, and they derived from upper-mantle and were contaminated by continental crust materials.

In 1996 a serious foodborne illness due to Escherichia coli O157:H7 (a bacteria) was traced to drinking contaminated unpasteurized apple juice.

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