contamination
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Contamination is the presence of a constituent, impurity, or some other undesirable element that renders something unsuitable, unfit or harmful for the physical body, natural environment, workplace, etc.
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- Types of contamination
- Chemical contamination
- Environmental contamination
- Agricultural contamination
- Food, beverage, and pharmaceutical contamination
- Radioactive contamination
- Interplanetary contamination
- Contaminated evidence
- Contaminated samples
- Food contaminant detection method
- See also
- References
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Contamination is the presence of a constituent, impurity, or some other undesirable element that renders something unsuitable, unfit or harmful for the physical body, natural environment, workplace, etc.
==Types of contamination== Within the sciences, the word "contamination" can take on a variety of subtle differences in meaning, whether the contaminant is a solid or a liquid, as well as the variance of environment the contaminant is found to be in. A contaminant may even be more abstract, as in the case of an unwanted energy source that may interfere with a process. The following represent examples of different types of contamination based on these and other variances.
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