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Перевод: contamination

[существительное]
загрязнение; заражение; порча ; осквернение; контаминация

Тезаурус:

1. Scientists are stepping up tests to find the source of dioxin contamination which has brought financial ruin to two farmers.
2. Not only was the cause somewhat of a mystery but the contamination was estimated to have lain there undetected for two or three years.
3. Social Darwinism's implicit assumption is that superior "races" should take measures against the contamination of the "race" by inferior peoples; this clearly relates directly to anxieties about "miscegenation".
4. This is because the alarm sensors look at overall levels of contamination of clothes, whereas the contamination is often "highly localised and correspondingly intense".
5. Richard North, a local environmental health officer who has been advising the nuns, said that contamination of eggs through the shell via the faeces had never been considered a serious risk either by the working party who had submitted evidence to the Select Committee on Salmonella in Eggs, or by the Public Health Service Laboratories.
6. Were the cases of poisoning and disease, now acknowledged as extraordinary by virtually all observers, the result of natural contamination or warfare?
7. Trichlorethylene and tetrachlorethylene used in dry cleaning and degreasing also pose threats to health, especially through contamination of groundwater, and have been detected in tapwater.
8. The DoE and MAFF memorandum also claimed that, "in common with current UK policy," the Draft Directive shows "a belief that measures must be taken to protect water sources from contamination by nitrate".
9. Taking tap water samples from each of the ten water authorities, he packaged them in the form of a consumer product as "a response to privatisation, and to draw attention to contamination in our water supplies."
10. The bacterial flora of the hands are similar to other skin sites but hands are of special significance in the transmission of infectious agents and the most important site of contamination.
11. Because cats are many times more sensitive to detergent contamination than we humans are, much more rinsing than usual is required.
12. Response includes search and rescue (including the need to cope with secondary threats such as contamination of water supplies after an explosion, or fire following an earthquake).
13. Often recommended for cleaning purposes, to avoid the spread of contamination inherent in the use of cloths, it does not have the mechanical properties necessary for anything other than very light soil removal.