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UK
/ɪmpjˈʊɹɪti/
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[ US /ˌɪmˈpjʊɹəti/ ]
[ US /ˌɪmˈpjʊɹəti/ ]
NOUN
- the condition of being impure
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worthless or dangerous material that should be removed
there were impurities in the water
How To Use impurity In A Sentence
- Microscopic examination of datolite nodules from a number of localities shows that native copper is probably the most common impurity.
- 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.
- It's pretty much a rule of politics that when a party has been out of power for a while it is willing to tolerate a decent amount of ideological impurity in its presidential candidate.
- In Galatians 5: 19-21 the list is headed by sexual immorality, impurity, licentiousness, and idolatry.
- The impurity of supposedly pure subcellular fractions is a constant threat to the plant biochemist.
- Nickel is one of the most important metallic impurity in very large scale integrated circuit (VLSI). It affects seriously the VLSI properties.
- Now, it is clear that this sacrifice is brought as a consequence of impurity from the fact that the same sacrifice of two turtle-doves or two pigeons is brought by a leper, a woman who has had an impure issue, and one who has just given birth.
- Like geeky music snobs sneering as their favourite indie band climbs the charts, they view success as a sign of impurity, popularity as poison.
- Once the delight and help of her husband, she is now the loathing of his soul and tempts him to absence and impurity.
- Since we had found previously that by adding bromine to the golden (SN) x material, we could increase its conductivity tenfold, we thought that perhaps the impurity in the polyacetylene was acting as a dopant and was actually increasing the conductivity of the polyacetylene, rather than decreasing it. Alan G. MacDiarmid - Autobiography