NOUN
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any substance that lessens the purity or effectiveness of a substance
it is necessary to remove the adulterants before use
ADJECTIVE
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making impure or corrupt by adding extraneous materials
the adulterating effect of extraneous materials
How To Use adulterant In A Sentence
- Surma is made from antimony sulfide, but it may contain lead as an accidental impurity that remains in antimony sulfide or it may be an intentional adulterant.
- Native Americans used both red-osier dogwood bark and leaves of the kinnikinnic (bearberry, Arcturus uva-ursi) as adulterants mixed with native tobacco.
- Use of adulterants or spurious materials is another issue that further complicates the quality standards of plants-based traditional remedies.
- Despite an early attempt to ban the substance in 1911 - skeptical scientists argued it was an "adulterant" that changed the makeup of food - saccharin grew in popularity, and was used to sweeten foods during sugar rationings in World Wars I and II. TIME.com: Top Stories
- The intact/non-intact distinction was first announced in a July 19, 1999 FSIS policy statement that the meat industry had long pushed as a way of deeming O157 an "adulterant" only in ground beef and other non-intact meat not "further processed" in a federally-inspected facility. Marler Blog
- Some herbal products may come with fillers, weeds, or other adulterants, so buy only from top quality suppliers.
- In doing so, they expose themselves to marijuana which may be contaminated with adulterants and mould.
- Heat is applied to the bottle, thereby separating the adulterants from the rock and leaving behind a gel-like substance containing a concentrated cocaine-based solution.
- The beam also contains a significant proportion of mid- and deep-ultraviolet; kills bacteria and decomposes any adulterants on the surface of the meat.
- Temperature, 13-14. as measurement of heat present, 27. in detecting adulterants, 17. in forging steel, 16. in making sirups, 16. measurement of, 14-15. General Science