organic contaminant

collocation in English

meaningsoforganicandcontaminant

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organic
adjective
uk
/ɔːˈɡæn.ɪk/us
/ɔːrˈɡæn.ɪk/
not using artificial chemicals in the growing of plants and animals for food and ...
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contaminant
noun[C]
uk
/kənˈtæm.ɪ.nənt/us
/kənˈtæm.ə.nənt/
a substance that makes something less pure or makes ...
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(Definition oforganicandcontaminantfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoforganic contaminant

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When anorganiccontaminantis present, the contact angle of water with the device will be high.
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The microorganisms in the environment are essentially carrying out oxidation and reduction reactions, namely, oxidation of theorganiccontaminantcoupled to the reduction of inorganic electron acceptors.
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The beads explore high internal surface areas and have capabilities of trapping organic contaminants.
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Individual more detailed chapters on inorganic and organic contaminants would have been perhaps worthwhile.
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Dig and haul, (fixed-base) incineration, and (mobile) low-temperature thermal incineration are expensive methods for treating organic contaminants in soil.
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There is no systematically collected data available as to the concentrations of alien, man-made organic contaminants in the estuary.
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Organic contaminants, including polychlorinated biphenyls, form part of this assessment.
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A specific concern is urbanization, which affects water quality by increasing its load of metals and organic contaminants.
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They found soaring levels of toxic heavy metals and organic contaminants in both places.
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Such networks can electrochemically oxidize organic contaminants, bacteria and viruses.
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This allows the water to become oxygenated and naturally purified from its organic contaminants.
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Willows can phytoremediate silver, chromium, mercury, lead, selenium, zinc and several other heavy metals and organic contaminants.
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Next the water is run through a tank containing activated charcoal to adsorb organic contaminants.
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A thermal desorber removing 500 mg/kg of organic contaminants from 20,000 tons of soil will produce less than 3,000 gallons of liquid organic.
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Gold also does not form oxides; it adsorbs organic contaminants from the air, but these are easy to remove.
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It has been employed in waste-water treatment as an oxidant for organic contaminants and as a biocide.
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An advantage in this application, as compared to the more commonly used chlorine, is that trihalomethanes (such as chloroform) are not produced from organic contaminants.
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Integrative passive samplers are an effective way to monitor the concentration of organic contaminants in aquatic systems over time.
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Few ion-exchange resins remove chlorine or organic contaminants from water this is usually done by using an activated charcoal filter mixed in with the resin.
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