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pollutants
- Subject Category
- P Natural Resources, Earth and Environmental Sciences
- Definition
- Any substance introduced into environment that has adverse effects on biological systems or organisms.
- Definition Source
- NAL Thesaurus Staff
- RDF/XML Format:
- http://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/5844.rdf
- Scope Note
- Use for undesirable substances in the environment; For undesirable substances in products USE adulterated products.
- Persistent URI:
- http://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/5844
- Used For
- environmental pollutants
- Broader Term
- environmental science
- Narrower Term
- air pollutants
- chemical pollutants
- effluents
- nonaqueous phase liquids
- persistent organic pollutants
- primary pollutants
- radioactive fallout
- secondary pollutants
- Related Term
- air sampling
- aroclors
- atmospheric deposition
- BTEX (benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, xylene)
- chlorofluorocarbons
- clean fuels
- ecotoxicology
- emissions
- endocrine-disrupting chemicals
- environmental hazards
- flue gas
- heavy metals
- indicator species
- marine debris
- methylmercury compounds
- pesticide persistence
- pollution
- toxic substances
- volatile organic compounds
- Spanish
- contaminantes (polución)
- Term Number
- 5844