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pollutants

pollutants is the plural of pollutant.

Meaning of pollutant

Noun

pollutant (plural pollutants)

  1. A foreign substance that makes something dirty, or impure, especially waste from human activities.
    • Acid rain forms when water in the atmosphere condenses on particles containing acid-forming pollutants, such as sulfate produced by the burning of fossil fuels and nitrogen oxides from automobile exhausts.1987 January 20, “Airborne Pollutants”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

Phrases with pollutants

Questions about pollutants

What is pollutants the plural of?
Pollutants is the plural of pollutant.

Words near pollutants in the dictionary

  1. polluosensitivity
  2. pollusion
  3. pollusions
  4. pollutable
  5. pollutant
  6. pollutants
  7. pollute
  8. polluted
  9. pollutedly
  10. pollutedness
  11. polluter

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