pollutant
US /pəˈlutn:t/
・UK /pəˈlu:tənt/
C1
n. (c./u.)Noun (Countable/Uncountable)Toxic substance harmful to the environment
Bicycles do not release one pollutant into the air as cars do
Video subtitles
Improve your Vocabulary: 50 adjectives to describe what you see, hear, feel, smell, and taste
- because you know that maybe it's a pollutant, it's
quite dangerous. "A noxious smell". "Rancid",
because you know that maybe it's a pollutant, it's quite dangerous. "A noxious smell". "Rancid",
- "Noctious" - now, this is often connected with chemicals, so it's a smell that you don't want to smell because you know that maybe it's a pollutant, it's quite dangerous.
"Noctious" - now, this is often connected with chemicals, so it's a smell that you don't want to smell because you know that maybe it's a pollutant, it's quite dangerous.
The Climate Justice Imperative
- In fact, they will be greatest in the places where the co-pollutant burdens are heaviest,
In fact, they will be greatest in the places where the co-pollutant burdens are heaviest,
- And so by addressing those co-pollutant burdens and by integrating that into the policy, we can both get more bang for the buck from the policy.
And so by addressing those co-pollutant burdens and by integrating that into the policy, we can both get more bang for the buck from the policy.
The fight to rethink (and reinvent) nuclear power
- and that's the main pollutant that's causing climate change.
and that's the main pollutant that's causing climate change.
- and that's the main pollutant that's causing
climate change.
and that's the main pollutant that's causing climate change.
The Story of Cap & Trade (2009)
- that confirms that carbon is a pollutant which our environmental agency is allowed to cap.
that confirms that carbon is a pollutant which our environmental agency is allowed to cap.
- that confirms that carbon is a pollutant which our environmental agency is allowed to cap.
that confirms that carbon is a pollutant which our environmental agency is allowed to cap.
Can Capitalism Save Lives? | Econ Chronicles | Learn Liberty
- to pollute, as if even a small emission of a pollutant were immoral. There's always going
to pollute, as if even a small emission of a pollutant were immoral. There's always going
- The public seems to recoil in horror at the idea of selling the right to pollute, as if even a small emission of a pollutant were immoral.
The public seems to recoil in horror at the idea of selling the right to pollute, as if even a small emission of a pollutant were immoral.
Shutdown Is Clearing The Air | April 23, 2020
- In the capital of South Korea, there was a 54 percent reduction in the pollutant.
In the capital of South Korea, there was a 54 percent reduction in the pollutant.
- In the capital of South Korea, there was a 54% reduction in the pollutant.
In the capital of South Korea, there was a 54% reduction in the pollutant.
Top 10 Ways China Is Ruining Its Own Environment
- money off this byproduct instead of just letting the dangerous pollutant “go to waste.”
money off this byproduct instead of just letting the dangerous pollutant “go to waste.”
How this Oklahoma Town Became Completely Uninhabitable
- And chat's not even the only pollutant hanging around—there was so much heavy metal, as in lead, zinc, cadmium, arsenic, iron, manganese, Metallica, Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, that kind of thing, running into the Tar Creek River that it turned visibly orange and notably acidic.
And chat's not even the only pollutant hanging around—there was so much heavy metal, as in lead, zinc, cadmium, arsenic, iron, manganese, Metallica, Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, that kind of thing, running into the Tar Creek River that it turned visibly orange and notably acidic.
- And chat's not even the only pollutant hanging around.
And chat's not even the only pollutant hanging around.
Air Pollution Is Killing Us
- This particular pollutant is identified because it's one of the more common pollutants from car exhaust, industrial pollution, and
This particular pollutant is identified because it's one of the more common pollutants from car exhaust, industrial pollution, and
- This particular pollutant is identified because it's one of the more common pollutants from car exhaust, industrial pollution, and wildfires.
This particular pollutant is identified because it's one of the more common pollutants from car exhaust, industrial pollution, and wildfires.
President Obama Explains How Pollution Affects Our Planet
- the common pollutant from cars and power plants,
the common pollutant from cars and power plants,