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Examples of pollutant in a Sentence
filtered the pollutants out of the water
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The rule also requires fence-line monitoring for covered processes and equipment that make, use, store or emit pollutants.
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USA TODAY, 10 Apr. 2024
The Florida Department of Environmental Protection conducted a lot of analyses looking for different pollutants, pharmaceuticals and other chemicals and nothing showed up, Parsons said.
—Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 29 Mar. 2024
Things like food availability, activity level, stress, competition, or exposure to pollutants can all prompt changes in methylation, and thus gene expression.
—Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 28 Mar. 2024
One of his earliest achievements was having a leadership role in the bipartisan amendment in 1990 of the Clean Air Act, beefing up federal regulation of pollutants.
—Michael H. Brown, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2024
There are zillions of technologies to monitor energy usage, emissions, pollutants, assembly line productivity, inventory, talent hiring and productivity, geolocations of anyone and anything, and where every penny is going today, not to mention analyzing and reconciling any of it in seconds.
—Joan Michelson, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
In addition, while cities very often have numerous monitoring stations to measure outdoor pollutants, the same can’t be said for most public buildings.
—Laurie Winkless, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
And in the most comprehensive study yet of methane emissions from U.S. oil and gas drilling, researchers estimate that the industry spews three times as much of the powerful heat-trapping pollutant as the government thinks, per the Associated Press’ Seth Borenstein.
—Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2024
In the process of creating that coke, all kinds of pollutants poured out of the plant’s smokestacks, Maher said.
—Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 20 Mar. 2024
USA TODAY, 10 Apr. 2024
The Florida Department of Environmental Protection conducted a lot of analyses looking for different pollutants, pharmaceuticals and other chemicals and nothing showed up, Parsons said.
—Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 29 Mar. 2024
Things like food availability, activity level, stress, competition, or exposure to pollutants can all prompt changes in methylation, and thus gene expression.
—Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 28 Mar. 2024
One of his earliest achievements was having a leadership role in the bipartisan amendment in 1990 of the Clean Air Act, beefing up federal regulation of pollutants.
—Michael H. Brown, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2024
There are zillions of technologies to monitor energy usage, emissions, pollutants, assembly line productivity, inventory, talent hiring and productivity, geolocations of anyone and anything, and where every penny is going today, not to mention analyzing and reconciling any of it in seconds.
—Joan Michelson, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
In addition, while cities very often have numerous monitoring stations to measure outdoor pollutants, the same can’t be said for most public buildings.
—Laurie Winkless, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
And in the most comprehensive study yet of methane emissions from U.S. oil and gas drilling, researchers estimate that the industry spews three times as much of the powerful heat-trapping pollutant as the government thinks, per the Associated Press’ Seth Borenstein.
—Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2024
In the process of creating that coke, all kinds of pollutants poured out of the plant’s smokestacks, Maher said.
—Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 20 Mar. 2024
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“Pollutant.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pollutant. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
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pollutant
noun
pol·lut·ant
pə-ˈlüt-ᵊnt 
: something that pollutes
Medical Definition
pollutant
noun
pol·lut·ant
pə-ˈlüt-ᵊnt
: something that pollutes
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