contaminated in the PONS Dictionary

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Money recovered from police raids on the drugs trade are often heavily contaminated.
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The river is heavily contaminated by heavy metals due to mining operations in the river basin.
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Said to have therapeutic qualities, locals hauled away the spring water by the bucketful until the spring was found to be contaminated.
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It is currently listed as a contaminated site, to be remediated in the future by the government.
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Granular metal was chosen as the reactive media after laboratory testing using contaminated water from the site.
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It is possible that microbial metabolism (arsenite oxidase coupled with precipitation in mineral deposits) can be harnessed for practical bioremediation of wastewater or drinking water contaminated with arsenic.
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But none of 116 people who had died of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease who had not received contaminated growth hormone showed any sign of amyloid protein deposits.
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This site was shortly after found to be contaminated and the school was forced to contribute to the cost of a clean-up.
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The unintended consequence of the new sewer system was to eliminate cholera not only in places that no longer stank, but wherever water supplies ceased to be contaminated by sewage.
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It is unsafe to eat mold-infected and aflatoxin-contaminated pistachios.
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