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Adulterant synonyms

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adulterator
One who or that which adulterates, or harms the purity of, something.
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  1. One who or that which adulterates, or harms the purity of, something.
contaminant
That which contaminates; an impurity; foreign matter.
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  1. That which contaminates; an impurity; foreign matter.
  2. One that contaminates.
  3. A substance that contaminates another substance, the air, water, etc.
contamination
A contaminating or being contaminated
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  1. A contaminating or being contaminated
  2. (Linguistics) A process whereby words with related meanings come to have similar sounds.
  3. The process of making a material or surface unclean or unsuited for its intended purpose, usually by the addition or attachment of undesirable foreign substances.
contaminator
A thing that contaminates; a contaminant
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  1. A thing that contaminates; a contaminant
  2. A person who contaminates
impurity
The quality or condition of being impure, especially:
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  1. The quality or condition of being impure, especially:
  2. Lack of consistency or homogeneity; adulteration.
  3. Contamination or pollution.
poison
(Chem.) A substance that inhibits or destroys the activity of a catalyst, enzyme, etc. or that interferes with or checks a reaction
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  1. (Chem.) A substance that inhibits or destroys the activity of a catalyst, enzyme, etc. or that interferes with or checks a reaction
  2. A substance causing illness or death when eaten, drunk, or absorbed even in relatively small quantities
  3. A substance that causes injury, illness, or death, especially by chemical means.
pollutant
Something that pollutes; esp., a harmful chemical or waste material discharged into the water or atmosphere
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  1. Something that pollutes; esp., a harmful chemical or waste material discharged into the water or atmosphere
  2. A substance or condition that contaminates air, water, or soil. Pollutants can be artificial substances, such as pesticides and PCBs, or naturally occurring substances, such as oil or carbon dioxide, that occur in harmful concentrations in a given environment. Heat transmitted to natural waterways through warm-water discharge from power plants and uncontained radioactivity from nuclear wastes are also considered pollutants.
Find another word for adulterant. In this page you can discover 8 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for adulterant, like: adulterator, contaminant, contamination, contaminator, impurity, poison, pollutant and clean.

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  • The last enters into the composition of some of the solid lubricating greases, and is also used as an adulterant of other oils.

  • The finely powdered and washed mineral is too crystalline and consequently of insufficient opacity to be used alone as a paint, and is therefore mixed with "white lead," of which material it is also used as an adulterant.

  • Tartaric acid, which is sometimes present in large quantities as an adulterant in commercial citric acid, may be detected in the presence of the latter, by the production of a precipitate of acid potassium tartrate when potassium acetate is added to a cold solution.

  • On this adulterant Sir Thomas Wardle remarks " With a solution of sugar, silk can have its weight augmented from I oz.

  • Now, intentional adulteration is practically non-existent, chiefly because of the fact that in the places of production the price obtainable is so low that any possible adulterant would be too costly to collect.

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