Pollutant
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A Pollutant is a contaminant (substance or energy) that pollutes an environment with undesired effects.
- Example(s):
- See: Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, Biodegradable, Environment (Biophysical), Dichlorodiphenyldichloroethylene, Dichlorodiphenyldichloroethane.
References
2020
- (Wikipedia, 2020) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/pollutant Retrieved:2020-4-10.
- A pollutant is a substance or energy introduced into the environment that has undesired effects, or adversely affects the usefulness of a resource. A pollutant may cause long- or short-term damage by changing the growth rate of plant or animal species, or by interfering with human amenities, comfort, health, or property values. Some pollutants are biodegradable and therefore will not persist in the environment in the long term. However, the degradation products of some pollutants are themselves polluting such as the products DDE and DDD produced from the degradation of DDT.