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Pollution is not stricktly a scientific term. It has been around in English since the middle ages and in Latin for a considerable period before that.

The original meaning is to foul or make dirty (in a visible manner) and could be applied to almost any aesthetic or organoleptic degradation of an object, view, holy place, etc.

Early scientists would simply have used an existing verb to describe the changed state.

Although used to describe all manner of environmental conditions pollution/polluted has a separate meaning from contaminated, adulterated or defiled

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