IMPURITY


Meaning of IMPURITY in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ VERB

contain

They often contain toxic impurities and may be an irritant to the skin.

The beans contain an impurity which causes James to become violently ill.

It contains a number of impurities the sum of which are known as water hardness salts.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Lime is added to the liquid metal to remove all the impurities.

There were impurities in the aluminum.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Ignorance and its sister, doubt, are the essence of all impurities and the source of every mental and spiritual element.

Other sources of a suitable soda-rich mineral with the same specific impurity pattern are difficult to suggest.

The fog, apart from being a mutated organism, now contains carbon dioxide and various other impurities.

They often contain toxic impurities and may be an irritant to the skin.

Thus Ahuja's book is the very first in the literature devoted to the evaluation of impurities in drugs.

With laser techniques, however, the molecular energy levels of the impurities are quite different from the atomic ones.

Workers add chemicals to remove impurities such as sulphides.

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