as in contamination
something that is or that makes impure
concerned about adulterants in the town's water supply coming from the discharge from the factory
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Recent Examples of adulterant
The practice of adulterating honey is well known, and historically adulterants such as ash and potato flour have been used.
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Daniel Matthews, Fortune Europe, 5 Aug. 2024
This is a notorious adulterant of spices used to artificially bolster their color and weight.
—Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 9 Jan. 2024
The 2017 study highlighted the reason that lead chromate is used as an adulterant.
—Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 9 Jan. 2024
The street supply of most drugs is now contaminated with fentanyl, as well as xylazine, and many other deadly adulterants.
—Peter Grinspoon, Time, 23 Aug. 2023
Samples of about one-third of the medications were later tested at a laboratory with a mass spectrometer, which helped confirm initial results and identify other adulterants — including MDMA and caffeine.
—Connor Sheets, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2023
But in Kensington, now the fentanyl supply has adulterants too.
—Samantha Guff, CNN, 7 Mar. 2023
That’s the way fentanyl has been found as an adulterant in many other drugs, helping to drive US overdose deaths to record highs.
—Samantha Guff, CNN, 7 Mar. 2023
The report found that heroin and fentanyl, a synthetic opioid far more powerful than heroin that increasingly has been added as an adulterant to street drugs, accounted for the vast majority of the nearly 1,600 deaths that have happened in suburban Cook County since 2016.
—John Keilman, chicagotribune.com, 19 Feb. 2021
Daniel Matthews, Fortune Europe, 5 Aug. 2024
This is a notorious adulterant of spices used to artificially bolster their color and weight.
—Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 9 Jan. 2024
The 2017 study highlighted the reason that lead chromate is used as an adulterant.
—Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 9 Jan. 2024
The street supply of most drugs is now contaminated with fentanyl, as well as xylazine, and many other deadly adulterants.
—Peter Grinspoon, Time, 23 Aug. 2023
Samples of about one-third of the medications were later tested at a laboratory with a mass spectrometer, which helped confirm initial results and identify other adulterants — including MDMA and caffeine.
—Connor Sheets, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2023
But in Kensington, now the fentanyl supply has adulterants too.
—Samantha Guff, CNN, 7 Mar. 2023
That’s the way fentanyl has been found as an adulterant in many other drugs, helping to drive US overdose deaths to record highs.
—Samantha Guff, CNN, 7 Mar. 2023
The report found that heroin and fentanyl, a synthetic opioid far more powerful than heroin that increasingly has been added as an adulterant to street drugs, accounted for the vast majority of the nearly 1,600 deaths that have happened in suburban Cook County since 2016.
—John Keilman, chicagotribune.com, 19 Feb. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for adulterant
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Similarly, the Environmental Protection Agency found scientific evidence that hydraulic fracking activities can affect drinking water resources under some circumstances, but the extent of contamination is unknown.Leah Sarnoff, ABC News, 20 Nov. 2024
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For the fiscal year that ended in September, there were 179 recalls deemed by the agency's food and cosmetics arm as being for the highest-risk classification of issues, like potential contamination with bacteria or undeclared allergens.Alexander Tin, CBS News, 20 Nov. 2024
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The soil layer should be thick enough to filter contaminants formed by the decaying body.David Bressan, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
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This product is also third-party tested for contents and contaminants by NSF.Willow Jarosh, MS, RD, Health, 18 Oct. 2024
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Concentrations of surface-level ozone, an air pollutant that contributes to respiratory and heart issues, repeatedly surpassed federal air quality standards over that period.Austin Corona, The Arizona Republic, 8 Nov. 2024
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In addition, scientists are hopeful that the new satellite could mitigate the number of pollutants released into the atmosphere.Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 6 Nov. 2024
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“Adulterant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/adulterant. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.
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