How to Use toxicant in a Sentence

toxicant

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  • The effects of these toxicants can move through the ecological food chain, much like the long-term harms once posed by DDT.
    — Andrea Michelson, Smithsonian, 26 Nov. 2019
  • The toxicant, called 6PPD-quinone, leaches out of the particles that tires shed onto pavement.
    — Erik Stokstad, Science | AAAS, 3 Dec. 2020
  • What are the toxicants in e-cigarettes that aren’t in cigarettes?
    — Rachel Becker, The Verge, 14 Dec. 2018
  • Because hot air from a fire rises, the flames from the train sent a black plume high into the air, potentially spreading toxicants far beyond the site of the derailment.
    — WIRED, 18 Feb. 2023
  • In fact, these dual-users showed higher levels of nicotine and many of the toxicants, including two heavy metals and some of the carcinogens.
    — Rachel Becker, The Verge, 14 Dec. 2018
  • At the same time, years of bombardments and neglect have created cracks in landfills that leach decomposing plastic toxicants into the groundwater.
    — Heidi Levine, National Geographic, 7 Aug. 2019
  • The birds were the unintended victims of a field experiment to test a toxicant—one intended for feral pigs, but no other animals—that had been developed in Australia.
    — Stephen Ornes, The Atlantic, 15 May 2021
  • As an example of the demand for such skills, consider the operations at any industrial factory, where waste products might contain toxicants.
    — Tree Meinch, Discover Magazine, 11 Mar. 2023
  • The state of California classifies it as a reproductive and developmental toxicant in humans.
    — Dina Fine Maron, Scientific American, 12 May 2015
  • Little ones are more vulnerable to environmental toxicants; their bodies and brains are developing, and early exposures to harmful substances can have lasting impacts.
    — Julia Belluz, Vox, 27 Sep. 2018
  • Advocacy groups studying the effects of the New York law say the new labels have revealed commonly found ingredients in menstrual products that may contain carcinogens, reproductive toxicants, endocrine disruptors, and allergens.
    — Erica Zurek, CBS News, 27 Apr. 2023
  • Environmental toxicants are equal-opportunity hazards; mercury, asbestos, pesticides and other compounds can cause health problems in humans and animals alike.
    — Emily Anthes, New York Times, 16 May 2017
  • This shouldn’t be surprising, given the ingredients in hair products, including formaldehyde (known carcinogen), toluene (neurological and developmental toxicant), sodium hydroxide (lye), and triphenyl phosphate (suspected endocrine disruptor).
    — Longreads, 5 June 2019
  • These chemicals include carcinogens, mutagens, reproductive system and organ toxicants, and skin and respiratory irritants.
    — Joel Tickner, Scientific American, 25 Feb. 2023
  • Heart medications, antidepressants, and ADHD medications, are also typical toxicants.
    — National Geographic, 29 Jan. 2020

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