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What is the adjective for contaminants?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb contaminate which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

contaminated
  1. adulterated; impure
  2. Synonyms:
      3. adulterated, tainted, polluted, corrupted, impure, sullied, corrupt, defiled, dirtied, poisoned, stained, unclean, adulterate, alloyed, dirty, filthy, fouled, infected, ruined, soiled, spoiled, spoilt, debased, degraded, infested, mixed, vitiated, tarnished, bastardized, besmirched, despoiled, bastardised, devalued, attenuated, deteriorated, decayed, blended, depreciated, rotten, impaired, blighted, diluted, lowered, perverted, putrefied, admixed, unrefined, combined, blemished, dissolved … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Places with poor refrigeration or contaminated water sources rely on aseptically packaged milk for nourishment.”
      “Respiratory difficulties stopped soon after they stopped breathing the contaminated air.”
      “The most evident ambiguity was the duality of the pure mind and the contaminated mind.”
contaminable
  1. Capable of being contaminated.
  2. Examples:
      3. “When bodily substances and fluids appear or are used outside of widely accepted margins they have the potential to be read as contaminable or threatening.”
contaminative
  1. That contaminates
  2. Synonyms:
      3. noxious, poisonous, toxic, noisome, unhealthy, unwholesome, insalubrious, pestiferous, pestilent, putrid, spoiled, spoilt, mephitic, miasmal, miasmic, pestilential, sickly, unhealthful, olid, contaminating, insalutary, insanitary, lethal, scathel, unhygienic, unsanitary, venomous, environmentally unfriendly … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “The C1s peaks at 284.8 and 288.9 e V were assigned to the contaminative hydrocarbon adsorbed on the sample surface.”
      “Thus, Pt or NiOx is often used as a co-catalyst, which is economically unattractive and environmentally contaminative.”
      “Besides the operation costs of thermal power plant, contaminative gas emission is also optimized as an objective.”
contaminating
  1. present participle of contaminate
  2. Synonyms:
      3. polluting, defiling, tainting, staining, soiling, spoiling, dirtying, adulterating, befouling, fouling, sullying, debasing, corrupting, poisoning, vitiating, tarnishing, marring, blighting, impairing, alloying, radioactivating, making impure, mucking up, smirching, besmirching, lacing, muddying, degrading, begriming, blackening, smudging, griming, spiking, spotting, blemishing, smearing, miring, infecting, ruining, bemiring, deteriorating, debauching, diluting, perverting, daubing, mucking, gauming, distaining, depraving, cheapening … more
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