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adulterant

NOUN
  1. any substance that lessens the purity or effectiveness of a substance
    it is necessary to remove the adulterants before use
ADJECTIVE
  1. 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
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