单词 | pollutant |
释义 | pollutant (once / 8371 pages) n WORD FAMILY pollutant: pollutants+/pollute: pollutant, polluted, polluter, pollutes, polluting, pollution/polluted: unpolluted/polluter: polluters/pollution: antipollution, pollutions USAGE EXAMPLESMotor oil, pesticides and other pollutants pose an ongoing threat to salmon, orcas and other marine life, as well as commercial fishing and swimming. Washington Times(Dec 30, 2016) Department of Energy, which conducts extensive climate research, said in 2014 that calling carbon dioxide a pollutant is a “disservice to the country.” Salon(Dec 23, 2016) It contains arsenic, selenium, mercury and other pollutants. Washington Times(Dec 21, 2016) n waste matter that contaminates the water or air or soil Hypo|Hyper DDT, dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane an insecticide that is also toxic to animals and humans; banned in the United States since 1972 CFC, chlorofluorocarbona fluorocarbon with chlorine; formerly used as a refrigerant and as a propellant in aerosol cans halona compound in which the hydrogen atoms of a hydrocarbon have been replaced by bromine and other halogen atoms; very stable; used in fire extinguishers although it is thought to release bromine that depletes the ozone layer nitrogen oxideany of several oxides of nitrogen formed by the action of nitric acid on oxidizable materials; present in car exhausts sulfur dioxide, sulphur dioxidea colorless toxic gas (SO2) that occurs in the gases from volcanoes; used in many manufacturing processes and present in industrial emissions; causes acid rain HCFC, hydrochlorofluorocarbona fluorocarbon that is replacing chlorofluorocarbon as a refrigerant and propellant in aerosol cans; considered to be somewhat less destructive to the atmosphere Freonany one or more chlorofluorocarbons (or related compounds) that are used as an aerosol propellant, organic solvent, or refrigerant waste, waste material, waste matter, waste product any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted |
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