How To Use Pollutant In A Sentence

The major pollutant in the area is particulates - tiny particles of dust or soot which get lodged in people's lungs and can damage health.
Fetal exposures to this proliferating pollutant can harm newborn mice and rats, a new study shows.
A spongy, Dijon-colored city of algae and microscopic creatures that floats on the surface, periphyton cleanses the Everglades of excess nutrients and pollutants.
The copying machine was chosen because it emits the least amount of environmental pollutants. An Alternative Approach to Allergies
Bottom trawling (scraping large nets across the seabed) kills coral, stirs up sediment causing pollutants to migrate into seaweed and other fish feed, and scoops up large amounts of by-catch -- other sealife, like turtles and dolphins unintentionally caught and wasted. Cathy Erway: The Pescatore's Dilemma

But hexane is an air pollutant, and its release is regulated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Piggery wastewater is a significant agricultural pollutant resources.
When T. tubifex was exposed to soil contaminated with mixtures PCBs and other organic pollutants there was a decrease in reproduction and development.
Pollutants such as nitrogen oxide, carbon monoxide and hydrocarbons have also been linked to hay fever, chest infection and childhood cancer.
It also absorbs potentially harmful pollutants in the air and provides food and shelter for birds and insects. Times, Sunday Times
It encourages the body's natural processes for removing pollutants and waste, and gives you a sense of wellbeing. Times, Sunday Times
Plants clean the very air we breathe, trapping pollutants, taking in carbon dioxide and releasing oxygen. The Sun
Sulphur dioxide is one of several pollutants that are released into the atmosphere by coal-fired power stations.
This is because the degree of human exposure created by a unit of emissions of health-damaging pollutants depends on where they are released relative to where people spend time, their exposure effectiveness. Chapter 8
I am, in short, thankful for private-property markets that are the main driving force behind these and many other anti-pollutants -- a force so powerful that we today enjoy the incredible luxury of being able to worry, should we so choose, about very distant and very speculative forms of environmental problems such as species loss and global warming. Earth Day -some cogent counterpoints to the standard green koolaid
Most cities generate a complex brew of pollutants.
European lawmakers are being urged to crack down on the luxury cruise liners that threaten marine life by pumping pollutants into the open ocean.
The river can dilute the small amounts of pollutant discharged by the chemical producer.
Smoggy pollutants get through even tiny gaps in windows, Morrison notes, especially ones that haven't been weatherproofed.
Other pollutants, such as nitrogen dioxide and sulfur dioxide, irritate the eyes, constrict air passages and lower the body's resistance to colds and other respiratory illnesses.
And it means ensuring that we keep our environment healthy—setting limits on emissions of carbon and other pollutants and on the drawdown of water and soil resources.
If there is a quantity of smoke or other airborne pollutant particles present, it is known as smog.
~ Dioxin pollution leads to more baby girls -study -- "More girls than boys are born in some Canadian communities because airborne pollutants called dioxins can alter normal sex ratios, even if the source of the pollution is many kilometers away, researchers say. Speedlinking 10/18/07
Your lungs may be exposed to pollutants such as ozone, carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, and sulfuric acid.
We are the maritime affair bureau assign to dump pollutants the company.
Of all criteria air pollutants, ozone is the most likely to have fairly uniform concentrations throughout an area. An Introduction to Community Health
This pollutant can be absorbed by both your lungs and your skin and result in caustic burns, kidney and liver damage and hyperactivity.
Relatively high levels of pesticides have been found in some western populations, and Tree Swallows are often used as indicator species for pollutants.
The rivers that drain the north European plain are heavy with dangerous metals, sewage and industrial pollutants. The Global Marketplace
Vast factories soon began to pour pollutants into the atmosphere in ever increasing quantities.
Exposure is to criteria air pollutants in ambient air. An Introduction to Community Health
This argument was presented in a modified form to the effect that the system of monitoring for dioxins and furans (other objectionable organic pollutants) was unreasonable and contrary to Articles 2 and 8 of the Convention.
Where better to scrub away pollutants and declare yourself clean, green and ready to save the world? Times, Sunday Times
The process involves forcing water through very fine membranes small enough to trap molecules of pollutants, but large enough to allow the water to pass.
A steady stream of California traffic clogs the air with pollutants.
The cogenerator will directly contribute to the reduction of many air pollutants, including a 20 percent reduction in the sulfur content of acid rain. Campus climate action in the United States
Much of the debate over the Florida Keys no-discharge area focused on the fact that water quality problems in the sanctuary were largely from land-based sources and those pollutants are largely nutrients, not fecal coliform bacteria.
What are the six criteria air pollutants? An Introduction to Community Health
Such pollutants may often be found at higher levels indoors.
It has been noted that guide dogs working in towns breathe the same pollutants as humans yet do not have asthma.
Deposition of nitric acid in particular may contribute to the equation as a fertiliser as well as a pollutant perse.
Recently attention has been focused on the assessment of biological risks of low-level exposure to environmental pollutants.
The spruce-fir forests have been affected by the balsam wooly adelgid, a non-native insect that kills mature Fraser firs, and some forest growth declines are possibly linked to air pollutants. Ecoregions of North Carolina and South Carolina (EPA)
Microplastics have been discovered widely distributed across the bottom of the St. Lawrence River, the first time such pollutants have been found in freshwater sediments.
This dish also gives us limonene, a supernutrient that helps to disarm nitrosamines, a major pollutant in cigarette smoke. Times, Sunday Times
The pollution caused by these companies despoils the environment for local communities, and some pollutants put wildlife and human health at risk.
Figures showed that amounts of the pollutant nitrogen dioxide were predicted to exceed allowed annual limits in five areas of the city.
Perhaps even stranger, ARS researchers have found that ordinary poultry manure, when converted by carbonization into granules and powders, can mop up pollutants in water.
It takes five to seven days for the atmospheric currents to carry dust, smoke or industrial pollutants from Asia to the US.
The role of pollutants in nutrient availability and uptake has been a special concern with regard to red spruce growth.
Studies examining the effects of air pollutants often use a single compound.
Despite the virtual absence of pollutants and allergens there, fully one-third of the population of about 300 are asthma sufferers.
Since permissible limits in India are as high as to accommodate these pollutants, they cannot be booked under pollution control rules.
We currently have insufficient evidence about the mechanisms of the association between respirable pollutants from smoking or indoor air pollution and tuberculosis.
Economic incentives or disincentives such as pollutant emission charges or taxes should receive more attention than they had received previously.
So he was shocked to learn that the pollutants collecting inside his body sounded much like a Superfund cleanup site: pesticides, flame retardants and other nasty, man-made chemicals turned up in a recent test.
Owners of cars containing defeat devices have been benefiting from lower fuel consumption but emitting air pollutants far in excess of the legal limit. Times, Sunday Times
Sulphur dioxide is a pollutant and a major contributor to acid rain.
Burning cleanly with no pollutants, this may be an answer the energy sucking economy is looking for.
Other Americans are understandably concerned about health issues, such as the growing biohazards created by mass food production, pollutants and bacteria introduced into meat products by substandard processing practices, and toxicity from heavy metals in many fish. American Yoga Association Beginner’s Manual Fully Revised and Updated
Hexane is listed as a hazardous air pollutant with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), according to the report, which called hexane the "dirty little secret of the 'natural' soy foods industry. Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News
Factories belched pollutants into our air for the same reason. The Good Fight
What are the names of a couple of the best house plants for cleaning pollutants in the air?
They emit no pollutants and have impressive energy efficiencies.
Burger and Gochfeld provide a thorough discussion of the utility and limitations of using seabirds as bioindicators of pollutants.
Pollutants in the river pose a real risk to the fish.
At each link in the chain, the concentration of pollutants increases.
Over the years, there have been a number of reports showing that heavy exposure to certain pollutants may affect a man's likelihood of fathering a son.
Plants clean the very air we breathe, trapping pollutants, taking in carbon dioxide and releasing oxygen. The Sun
It contains fewer chemical pollutants, which asthmatics are often allergic to, and so helps to prevent asthma attacks.
Groundwater interactions with surface-water systems greatly influence water quality characteristics such as cation, anion, nutrient, and dissolved organic matter concentrations, and even the fate and behavior of toxic pollutants. Freshwater ecosystems in the Arctic
The principal pollutants are lead, cadmium, zinc, iron and manganese.
Pollutants in the atmosphere and the attentions of birds and humans cause discolouration, encrustation and corrosion.
Section 301 ( b ) ( 2 ) prescribes BAT effluent limitations for " nonconventional " and toxic pollutants.
The article mainly studies emission characteristics of combustion pollutant after mixing petroleum coke in coal - pulverized boiler.
Vitamin C helps to detoxify pollutants in the body.
That is, it is plausible to hypothesize that observations of altered plasma steroids in contaminant-exposed juvenile and adult alligators are, in part, a response to nitrogenous pollutants.
PICT, used as an indicator for the determination of toxic effects of pollutants in biotic communities, has been developed for aquatic and terrestrial communities.
Just as fuel consumption grows disproportionately as speeds rise, so does the emission of air pollutants.
Habitats in San Francisco Bay are impaired by pollutants including mercury.
He's currently in our waters to measure whale numbers, and to audit the impact of man-made pollutants on marine creatures.
The plume contained toxic pollutants, possibly cyanide, from foam, oil, acrylic paints and tyres burnt in the blaze.
Chemical irritants such as cigarette smoke or other environmental or industrial pollutants damage the ciliated cells.
Of particular concern is the effect on marine wildlife of persistent organic pollutants (POPs), especially those chemicals not yet regulated under the 2001 Stockholm Convention, such as brominated flame retardants. Booman Tribune
Pollutants are everywhere and their effects are accumulative.
These results showed a clear correlation between quality of life and the level of air pollutants.
Researchers at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory discovered that the nicotine in so-called 'third-hand smoke' reacts with a common indoor air pollutant called nitrous acid to form dangerous chemicals. THE MEDICAL NEWS
Since 1989 the emission of pollutants has in fact fallen, but only because the economy has collapsed.
The fact that such devices emit pollutants is acknowledged by the industry which says it is trying to make its appliances cleaner and more efficient. Times, Sunday Times
He changed power-plant rules affecting emissions, a move favored by industry, and has balked at forcing big ships to clean their smokestack pollutants.
Tests have revealed high levels of air pollutants forming a perpetual noxious brew in the worst affected areas.
In a second experiment, the HML team mimicked a chemical pollutant challenge by injecting blue crabs with a chemical** known to inhibit oxidative phosphorylation, a metabolic process that manufactures energy. Innovations-report
The conclusion is that infrared - radiation domestic gas oven has merit in low pollutant emission.
Whilst our cities wheeze from the effects of chemical pollutants there is another form of pollution gathering in the atmosphere.
Discharge pipes directly take pollutants away from the plant into the river.
Some researchers also feel that acidic air pollutants can contribute to respiratory problems in humans. An Introduction to Community Health
Pentachlorophenol (PCP) is a good example of a nasty environmental pollutant.
Lung cancer has become the most common cause of cancer deaths due to increased tobacco habit and environmental pollutants especially automobile exhausts.
Pollutants in diesel exhausts exist as particles or gas phase compounds and the contribution of nitrated, oxygenated and alkylated PAHs to the mutagenic and carcinogenic activity has been recognized.
Environmental pollutants, such as pesticides and insecticides, may enter the human body through the food chain.
It contains fewer chemical pollutants, which asthmatics are often allergic to, and so helps to prevent asthma attacks.
Scientists also suspect that air pollutants might dampen the growth of alveoli, tiny air sacs in the lungs.
An electronic cleaner produces negative ions that are attracted to the pollutants.
Dibutyl phthalate ( DBP ) has been found as a ubiquitous environmental pollutant with reproductive and developmental toxicity.
China's move to start measuring deadly air pollutant PM 2.5 for the first time signals a shift towards greater openness on the state of the environment, writes Angel Hsu.
The most recently regulated pollutants are toxicants.
The water hyacinth is a plant that removes pollutants from the water, which is why it isn't feasible to dredge it out, chop it up, and use it for forage or mulch. Lake Chapala "Cesspool"
It contains fewer chemical pollutants, which asthmatics are often allergic to, and so helps to prevent asthma attacks.
Dr. Ryan, who took up his post at the college in February, is delving into environmental matters and in particular, the use of bacteria in the biodegradation of toxic pollutants and waste.
Birds and fish can be harmed by accidentally consuming the cotton bud stems and the plastic can also act as a sponge for chemical pollutants. Times, Sunday Times
The pollutants diffuse into the soil.
The coalition's focus on so-called short-lived pollutants won't replace efforts to slash carbon emissions, for which "the world has not yet done enough," Ms. Clinton said. U.S. Joins Effort to Fight Climate Change
Bio-transport of organic pollutants to an inland Alaska lake by migrating Sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka). Potential impacts of indirect mechanisms of climate change on human health in the Arctic
The purpose of the convention is to protect human health and the environment from persistent organic pollutant chemicals.
It also absorbs potentially harmful pollutants in the air and provides food and shelter for birds and insects. Times, Sunday Times
A cooling mask packed with a rich blend of seaweed and plant protein to help protect skin from daily pollutants and remove impurities. Times, Sunday Times
(There are a few exceptions, such as caulking, that can sometimes emit pollutants.) Indoor air quality (IAQ)
But a growing body of international scientific and environmental opinion sees fluoride as nothing more than a poisonous pollutant, profitably and misleadingly rebadged as the scourge of dental caries.
A cooling mask packed with a rich blend of seaweed and plant protein to help protect skin from daily pollutants and remove impurities. Times, Sunday Times
The potency of this study lies not only in the detail presented in terms of types of releases and water basin and subbasin affected, but in that the names of emitters, both public and private, are cited along with the estimated pounds per year of each type of pollutant released by each establishment. An Introduction to Ecological Economics~ Chapter 4
Air pollutants, such as carbon monoxide, often found in buildings near major roads, restrict the oxygen-carrying capacity of the blood.
Pollutant-caused cancers are predominantly attributable to the use of tobacco products, and involve the lung, oropharynx, larynx, bladder, and kidney.
So the obvious key to reducing pollutants is to heat the cat faster.
A hazardous air pollutant such as benzene that does not mix in the airshed can cause localized "hot spots. Robert Stavins: Environmental Problems and the Myth of Simple Market Solutions
Just think about the pollutants crammed into the paraffin wax and the artificial scents you're filling your home with. Times, Sunday Times
Studies of air quality show that pollutants like car exhaust fumes can add to their suffering, especially during hot weather.
This chapter describes methods of estimating airborne pollutant concentration distrubutions associated with various emission sources.
Committee members were unable to ascertain exactly which pollutants had done what, but identified the mine as the source of the trouble. The Times Literary Supplement
We will issue factories and power stations with licences setting a ceiling on permitted emissions of pollutants.
One of those suspected factors is bacterial endotoxins because they are present in oral and nasal cavities and air pollutants.
A book documenting among other things the effect of an environmental pesticide ingredient known as dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, called DDT for short awakened a population to the danger of pollutants. EzineArticles
Incredibly low concentrations of a pollutant in the environment can be concentrated enormously by the food chain.
Road transport is a major source of emission of primary pollutants, especially in cities.
Four-stroke engines are heavier than two-strokes but the technology means they burn fuel more completely and emit fewer pollutants.
The combustion pollutants discussed in this booklet come from burning fuels in appliances.
We wish to see a world market in tradable emission licences for carbon dioxide and other pollutants.
Yet there are unavoidable pollutants in the air we breathe. Times, Sunday Times
The etiology of a pulmonary exacerbation is likely a variety of airway insults including respiratory viral infections, reactive airway disease, and pollutants.
The city is constantly bathed in a visible haze of harmful pollutants: Sulphur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, ozone and smoke.
Gauderman believes chronic inflammation may play a role, with air pollutants irritating small airways on a daily basis.
This process is also destroying vegetation, washing soil and pollutants into estuaries and onto coral reefs as well as alienating foreshores from the public, and threatening beaches with rock walls.
The Potomac was clean again, a haven for windsurfers, and certain airborne pollutants had fallen sharply.
Scientists also suspect that air pollutants might dampen the growth of alveoli, tiny air sacs in the lungs.
Exactly how air pollutants increase the risk of death is not well known.
The study says that this may be due to exposure to environmental pollutants and chemicals. Times, Sunday Times
However, producing these two rustic finishes creates minute fissures in the stone, thereby increasing its liquid absorption and its retention of dirt and pollutants.
Deposition of nitric acid in particular may contribute to the equation as a fertiliser as well as a pollutant perse.
Other aspects incorporated into an integrated transport strategy include implementing parking fees at the workplace and "gating", whereby traffic patterns are designed to prevent pollution in open areas where pollutants can be most easily dispersed. Energy profile of the United Kingdom
Over the past forty or fifty years, exposure to indoor air pollutants has increased.
Landfill leachate contained high concentration of pollutants and great variation is compositionrate.
The potential health hazards associated with inhalation of airborne pollutants are now well recognized.
Airborne pollutants from copper smelters or acidic rain that mobilizes naturally-occurring metals near streams may have resulted in toxic levels of cadmium.
The human contribution to oceanic dead zones is significant: ...new scientific research suggests that pollutants, including flame-retardant chemicals and synthetic musks found in detergents, are being traced in the polar seas, and that these chemicals can be absorbed by tiny plastic particles in the ocean which are in turn ingested by marine creatures such as bottom-feeding fish. Robert Koehler: The End Times
Using Beer-Lambert's law, the instrument detects and measures the reductions caused by pollutants in the spectrum of ambient air.
The main cause is excess nitrogen run-off from farm fertilizers, sewage and industrial pollutants.
Clean" coal technology is actually several processes and technologies that capture most of pollutants when burning or gasifying coal. Obama Promoting Coal -- And Concern For Rural Voters -- In New Kentucky Ad
A desire to explore, even by mechanical proxy, is now a self-indulgence to be resisted, since the end result would only be the imperial spreading of that pollutant known as humankind. Across the Universe
It turns out that all the carbon dioxide and pollutants we are pumping out through our tailpipes and smokestacks doesn't dissipate as readily as had been previously thought.
A temperature inversion would result at the top of the shallow layer, trapping any pollutants emitted into that layer.
Bone loss from the osteoporotic condition can result in a healthy population for a variety of reasons, including insufficient dietary intake, pollutants, toxins, menopause, lack of physical activity and heredity.
On the consumer side of the industry, activists are campaigning against the pollutants used to make gadgets. Times, Sunday Times
List the six criteria pollutants of air. An Introduction to Community Health
Coincidentally, and perhaps ironically, an expert committee convened by the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants is also meeting this week, in Geneva, to discuss dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane or DDT, an anti-malaria insecticide that has been saving lives since 1945. Free the Fight Against Malaria
Among the chemicals known to affect breast development and cancer susceptibility in animal studies, according to the report, are pesticides such as atrazine, used in agriculture; dioxins, an industrial pollutant found in some fatty foods; bisphenol A (BPA), found in some water bottles and canned foods; polybrominated diphenyl ether (PBDE) flame retardants, and nonylphenol (a breakdown product found in certain laundry detergents). Early chemical exposures may affect breast health
The concern is that drainage discharge water can carry pollutants such as the herbicide atrazine, sediment, and nutrients to surface waters.
The energy master-plan emphasises investment in technology to reduce the emission of pollutants such as sulphur dioxide and nitrogen oxide through improvements in coal combustion.
The emphasis is not on taxing pollutants or simply outlawing pollutants.
International shipping may be one of the largest sources of air pollutants along the Norwegian coast and in the Northern Atlantic, forming ground-level ozone and acidifying shorelines, according to Norwegian researchers.
Products produced from petroleum, such as mineral oils, are classified as petrochemical pollutants.
The market mechanism already exists to take pollutants out of the air as part of a cap-and-trade mechanism. Times, Sunday Times
A "Trace Gas Analyser", which has wide application in areas ranging from trace-pollutant detection to medical diagnosis; the analyser is used to quickly and accurately detect even minute amounts of toxic substances in a patient's body. UniversitiesSome Crises of Misunderstanding
‘Many ibises died in the past from water contaminated either by pesticides or some other pollutant,’ he said.
Water frequently accumulates on old factory and tip sites absorbing various kinds of powerful pollutants.
An electronic cleaner produces negative ions that are attracted to the pollutants.
Now there is a complex mix of pollutants in the air. The Sun
Nitrogenous compounds have become a major global pollutant in freshwater and estuarine ecosystems.
Such chemicals are known as persistent organic pollutants.
But scientists increasingly believe that it is one of the chief pollutants responsible for the greenhouse effect warming the planet.
Whilst our cities wheeze from the effects of chemical pollutants there is another form of pollution gathering in the atmosphere.
Pollutants such as nitrogen oxide, carbon monoxide and hydrocarbons have also been linked to hay fever, chest infection and childhood cancer.
Committee members were unable to ascertain exactly which pollutants had done what, but identified the mine as the source of the trouble. The Times Literary Supplement
The clean-up operation took weeks to complete, with pollutants having to be tankered away for specialist disposal.
In addition to ambient pollutant levels, elemental concentrations within moss tissue may be influenced by the nature of the sample.
Pollutants such as nitrogen oxide, carbon monoxide and hydrocarbons have also been linked to hay fever, chest infection and childhood cancer.
The quantity of chemical pollutants has increased exponentially.
Pollutants are constantly being released into the atmosphere.
In what forms can air pollutants be found? An Introduction to Community Health
Yet there are unavoidable pollutants in the air we breathe. Times, Sunday Times
Objects kept out of doors are subject to weathering from rain, wind, sunshine, and the disintegrating action of frost, as well as to attack by pollutants from industrial atmospheres and vibration.
Do these ecoterrorist know what further impact they are having on the environment with fires and all the pollutants that they put in the atmosphere? Live Blog from the Anchor Desk 09/28/09
Birds and fish can be harmed by accidentally consuming the cotton bud stems and the plastic can also act as a sponge for chemical pollutants. Times, Sunday Times
In order to be an “air pollutant” under the Act’s definition, the “substance or matter being emitted into . . . the ambient air” must also meet the first half of the definition’€”namely, it must be an “air pollution agent or combination of such agents.” Ruling in Mass v EPA « Climate Audit
Sunday, August 08, 2010 environmental news stories sunday more stories you probably won't hear the white middle age dudes talk about on the sunday morning yacking shows. pollution reaches new high as smog smothers moscow. - a suffocating smog from wildfires hung over the russian capital on saturday, raising the concentration of dangerous pollutants to a new high as residents donned masks and dozens of flights were delayed at the city's airports - london independent russians seek shelter as fires rage out of control. - pollution from peat and forest fires raging around moscow surged to new highs on saturday as muscovites continued to flee the choking smog that has shrouded the city. - london financial times huge ice sheet breaks from greenland glacier. - a giant sheet of ice measuring 260 sq km has broken off a glacier in greenland, according to researchers at a us university - bbc southern michigan faces long recovery after oil spill. - the kalamazoo river disaster is historic in its own right, even if it only registers Skippy the bush kangaroo
The fact that such devices emit pollutants is acknowledged by the industry which says it is trying to make its appliances cleaner and more efficient. Times, Sunday Times
Such nondegradable pollutants not only accumulate but are often "biologically magnified" as they move along food chains.
The major pollutant in the area is particulates - tiny particles of dust or soot which get lodged in people's lungs and can damage health.
The pots were carefully sprayed with pollutant solutions for 2 min and maintained in propagators in the growth cabinet as described above.
Most cities generate a complex brew of pollutants.
Committee members were unable to ascertain exactly which pollutants had done what, but identified the mine as the source of the trouble. The Times Literary Supplement
Committee members were unable to ascertain exactly which pollutants had done what, but identified the mine as the source of the trouble. The Times Literary Supplement

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