toxicant

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Recent Examples of toxicant Interestingly, our group has recently shown that toxicants in food or food packaging, like pesticides, mercury and phthalates – chemicals used to manufacture plastics – can affect sleep. Erica Jansen, Discover Magazine, 19 Jan. 2024 Nicotine pouches are purportedly intended to help people stop smoking cigarettes, Irfan Rahman, PhD, who runs a lab that conducts research on toxicants at the University of Rochester Medicine, told Health. Maggie O'Neill, Health, 28 Nov. 2023 Children are particularly at risk to exposure from toxicants like styrene, said Timothy Nurkiewicz, director of West Virginia University’s Toxicology Working Group and Inhalation Facilities. USA TODAY, 11 June 2023 And despite abundant research, pharmaceutical controls—either contraceptives or poisons, what biologists call toxicants—are still a few years away. Maryn McKenna, WIRED, 21 Mar. 2023 See all Example Sentences for toxicant 
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Noun
  • Investigators found two plots cleared of native vegetation with about 10,000 marijuana plants, hazardous pesticides, and an irrigation system diverting 33,780 gallons of water daily amid severe drought conditions, a press release issued on Thursday noted.
    Bay City News Service, The Mercury News, 22 Dec. 2024
  • But some farms list the chemical in their monthly pesticide use reports to the state without any apparent consequence, Paige reports.
    Hunter Clauss, Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Krueger’s Christmas Tree Farm in Lake Elmo, Minnesota, for example, doesn’t use pesticides and minimally uses herbicides, according to John Krueger, third generation owner.
    Eve Glover, Fox News, 17 Dec. 2024
  • As an official Bee City, Calgary has banned the spraying of pesticides and herbicides.
    Sofia Perez, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • An insecticide used to disinfect hospitals and dog kennels was found in the testing of vapes The insecticide, pymetrozine, is a carcinogen banned in Europe and was once used in Lysol.
    Hunter Clauss, Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2024
  • Several affordable insecticide treatments fend off the emerald ash borer and can be sprayed onto trees.
    Tamia Fowlkes, Journal Sentinel, 12 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Sometimes brown or large patch, a disease, affects St. Augustine lawns and a fungicide could be applied if this has been a problem in the past.
    Tom MacCubbin, Orlando Sentinel, 7 Dec. 2024
  • The university said at the time that researchers were controlling the disease with fungicide.
    Kunle Falayi, The Arizona Republic, 2 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Although European mistletoe is more toxic than American mistletoe, both plants are dangerous if ingested, particularly by pets and children, who may be attracted to the small white berries that have a high concentration of toxin.
    Dr. Nick Goltz, Hartford Courant, 21 Dec. 2024
  • These toxins are eliminated from the brain during deeper stages of sleep.
    Mill Etienne, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • According to a press release from the Mesa Police Department, Smith faces one felony charge of introducing poison, as well as misdemeanor charges of theft, criminal damage and endangerment.
    Fernando Cervantes Jr., USA TODAY, 26 Dec. 2024
  • To fight pests, a technique called mRNA interference allows bioengineers to create a precision poison for a particularly troublesome beetle.
    Andrew Rosenblum, Popular Science, 26 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Fipronil is also high toxic to fish and aquatic invertebrates.
    Scott Travers, Forbes, 22 Nov. 2024
  • According to Apolo, theobromine, an alkaloid in the cacao beans used to make chocolate, makes chocolate toxic to canines.
    Kelli Bender, People.com, 29 Oct. 2024

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“Toxicant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/toxicant. Accessed 1 Jan. 2025.

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