| NOUN | substance | pollutant | waste matter that contaminates the water or air or soil |
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| Sounds | pahluw'tahnt | |
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| Rhymes | abandonment ... wonderment: 671 rhymes with ahnt... | |
| Meaning | waste matter that contaminates the water or air or soil. | |
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| Narrower | chlorofluorocarbon, CFC | A fluorocarbon with chlorine |
| dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, DDT | An insecticide that is also toxic to animals and humans | |
| halon | A compound in which the hydrogen atoms of a hydrocarbon have been replaced by bromine and other halogen atoms | |
| nitrogen oxide | Any of several oxides of nitrogen formed by the action of nitric acid on oxidizable materials | |
| sulfur dioxide, sulphur dioxide | A colorless toxic gas (SO2) that occurs in the gases from volcanoes | |
| Broader | waste, waste material, waste matter, waste product | Any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted |
| Spanish | contaminante | |
| Catalan | contaminant | |
| Verbs | pollute | make impure |
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