Examples of toxicant in a Sentence
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
What still isn’t known Our analysis of the CARB data on volatile toxicants does not paint a complete picture.
—Robin Dodson, Fortune Well, 2 May 2023
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
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
These chemicals include carcinogens, mutagens, reproductive system and organ toxicants, and skin and respiratory irritants.
—Joel Tickner, Scientific American, 25 Feb. 2023
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
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Word History
Medieval Latin toxicant-, toxicans, present participle of toxicare to poison, from Latin toxicum
1879, in the meaning defined above
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