IMPURITIES Synonyms: 31 Similar and Opposite Words

impurities

noun

plural of impurity

as in contaminants

something that is or that makes impure impurities in the water made it cloudy

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Recent Examples of impurities Companies like Coca-Cola and Pepsi—who own Dasani and Aquafina, respectively—take tap water, treat it (which typically means removing some minerals deemed impurities), bottle it, and sell it at a markup. — Sam Stone, Bon Appetit Magazine, 27 Aug. 2026 That concentrate requires further refining to remove impurities. — Matthew Kayser, USA Today, 21 Aug. 2026 After 15 years of experiments, Schumm’s group ended up with a recipe for solid calcium fluoride crystals, doped with little impurities of thorium 229, that looked like transparent millimeter-sized cubes. — Jacek Krywko, Scientific American, 20 Aug. 2026 The pyrometallurgical process removes oxygen, carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, sulfur, and metallic impurities in a single continuous step at a lower cost. — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 18 Aug. 2026 The retinol in the formula sloughs away all impurities that lead to the bumps in the first place, while vitamin E and green tea fend off any sensitivities by restoring the moisture barrier. — Mary Honkus, Glamour, 18 Aug. 2026 Sweet crude is cleaner, has fewer impurities and is easier to refine into gasoline, diesel and jet fuel than heavy crude is. — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 13 Aug. 2026 The second source of unwanted immune response is impurities from mRNA production. — Li Li, The Conversation, 6 Aug. 2026 To break through the water’s tight molecular network, the escaping CO2 relies on nucleation sites—microscopic rough spots, impurities, or foreign objects that disrupt the arrangement of water molecules and allow gas molecules to easily cluster. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 5 Aug. 2026

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Some food dyes made from natural ingredients can contain contaminants and may pose their own health risks, such as diabetes.

— Stephanie Armour, CBS News, 25 Aug. 2026
In Keyport, New Jersey, a community's residents gathered to learn more about an investigation into contaminants found at an industrial park and neighboring former landfill and whether the contaminants could be affecting their air and water.

— Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of contaminants

Noun

Facilities would have to be on land zoned for heavy industrial use and could not be located near disadvantaged communities or populations sensitive to pollutants, such as hospitals, schools and nursing homes.

— Naomi Taxay, Sacbee.com, 29 Aug. 2026
Ancient rock art at Murujuga, or the Burrup Peninsula, in Western Australia, has seen much larger damaged than previously anticipated due to industrial pollutants found in air emissions.

— Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of pollutants

Noun

In one of the heaviest contaminations of TCE and PCE documented, thousands of soldiers and their families were exposed to the solvents at North Carolina’s Camp Lejeune from 1953 to 1987.

— WUFT News, Miami Herald, 29 July 2026
And the Food and Drug Administration is also investigating contaminations that may be tied to a different outbreak.

— Mary Randolph, Scientific American, 24 July 2026

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