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/ɐdˌʌltəɹˈeɪʃən/
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[ US /əˌdəɫtɝˈeɪʃən/ ]
[ US /əˌdəɫtɝˈeɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
- the act of adulterating (especially the illicit substitution of one substance for another)
- being mixed with extraneous material; the product of adulterating
How To Use adulteration In A Sentence
- When adulteration comes to light, it's for a variety of reasons. Times, Sunday Times
- There are following ways for modification of the EM character : structural arrangement , noncircular section, surface adulteration , micro - coiled stucture.
- Soap is subject to another kind of adulteration called filling, or weighting. Scientific American Supplement, No. 392, July 7, 1883
- Stable isotope ratio analysis is an effective method for the identification of fruit juice adulteration.
- Well, the deliberate contamination of food materials with low quality, cheap, non-edible or toxic substances is called food adulteration.
- They also know how to select herbs from reputable producers so that the risk of adulteration is minimized. Dr. Richard Palmquist: Veterinarians Team With Mother Nature for Better Results
- Ben Jonson has let us into some of their secrets of adulteration -- the treatment of the leaf with oil and the lees of sack, the increase of its weight by other artificial additions to its moisture, washing it in muscadel and grains, keeping it in greased leather and oiled rags buried in gravel under ground, and by like devices. The Social History of Smoking
- He became well known as a criminologist and also as an advocate of laws for the safeguarding of the public health and against adulteration of food. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1
- the adulteration of culture
- The most dangerous adulteration of wine is by some preparations of lead, which possess the property of stopping the progress of acescence of wine, and also of rendering white wines, when muddy, transparent. A Treatise on Adulterations of Food, and Culinary Poisons Exhibiting the Fraudulent Sophistications of Bread, Beer, Wine, Spiritous Liquors, Tea, Coffee, Cream, Confectionery, Vinegar, Mustard, Pepper, Cheese, Olive Oil, Pickles, and Other Articles Employ