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contaminate
[kən′tam·ə‚nāt] (science and technology)
To render unfit or to soil by the introduction of foreign or unwanted material.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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The idea is to prevent the juices from
contaminating other foods.
These investigations confirmed the perchloroethylene contamination and determined that a facility belonging to Klockner and Kockner was responsible for
contaminating the soil with tetrachloroethene.
But in 1967 the lake did dry up, and radioactive dust was blown over an area of 1,800 square kilometers,
contaminating at least half a million people, according to Nilsen.
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