The noun forms for the verb to contaminate are contaminator, contaminant, contamination, and the gerund, contaminating.
The contaminant in the water supply was ammonia leaking from a storage tank. Once the contaminant is identified, likely sources for it can be checked. The experiment was ruined when a contaminant was found in the sterile solution.
Sewage from cities continues to contaminate areas of the Great Lakes. Fishermen feared that oil from the spill would contaminate seafood in the area. Exposure to radioactive water can contaminate equipment in a nuclear reactor.
A contaminant reduces the melting point of a solid.
A contaminant is something that does not belong. Contamination is the presence of one or more contaminants.
A similar term is "contaminant transport". It means the path that a contaminant moves from its beginning to its final resting place, and all the physical, chemical and biological processes that might change it on its journey.
I can give you several sentences.The pollution will contaminate that water!Don't contaminate the salsa by double-dipping.The evil scientist plans to contaminate the ocean.
Because many animals and plants doesn't support sodium chloride NaCl can be a contaminant of soils and waters.
i have contaminate the food by putting my dirty hand on the food.
no The young plants will not contaminate the compost the pesticides that contaminate must be applied after planting.
If it is open, the acid will contaminate it.
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