How to Use toxicant in a Sentence

toxicant

noun
  • What are the toxicants in e-cigarettes that aren’t in cigarettes?
    — Rachel Becker, The Verge, 14 Dec. 2018
  • One concern is that toxicants in the sharks’ livers can hinder production of vitellogenin, which becomes the yolk needed for egg cells.
    — Byerik Stokstad, science.org, 19 July 2024
  • The effects of these toxicants can move through the ecological food chain, much like the long-term harms once posed by DDT.
    — Andrea Michelson, Smithsonian, 26 Nov. 2019
  • In fact, these dual-users showed higher levels of nicotine and many of the toxicants, including two heavy metals and some of the carcinogens.
    — Rachel Becker, The Verge, 14 Dec. 2018
  • Because hot air from a fire rises, the flames from the train sent a black plume high into the air, potentially spreading toxicants far beyond the site of the derailment.
    — WIRED, 18 Feb. 2023
  • Since toxicants can be found in both healthy and unhealthy foods, this research suggests that some foods can contain a mix of components that are both beneficial and harmful for sleep.
    — Erica Jansen, Discover Magazine, 19 Jan. 2024
  • The toxicant, called 6PPD-quinone, leaches out of the particles that tires shed onto pavement.
    — Erik Stokstad, Science | AAAS, 3 Dec. 2020
  • At the same time, years of bombardments and neglect have created cracks in landfills that leach decomposing plastic toxicants into the groundwater.
    — Heidi Levine, National Geographic, 7 Aug. 2019
  • As an example of the demand for such skills, consider the operations at any industrial factory, where waste products might contain toxicants.
    — Tree Meinch, Discover Magazine, 11 Mar. 2023
  • The birds were the unintended victims of a field experiment to test a toxicant—one intended for feral pigs, but no other animals—that had been developed in Australia.
    — Stephen Ornes, The Atlantic, 15 May 2021
  • The incidence of obesity, kidney disease, and prostate disease increased in each subsequent generation after the first toxicant exposure.
    — Erin Prater, Fortune Well, 2 Feb. 2024
  • And despite abundant research, pharmaceutical controls—either contraceptives or poisons, what biologists call toxicants—are still a few years away.
    — Maryn McKenna, WIRED, 21 Mar. 2023
  • The state of California classifies it as a reproductive and developmental toxicant in humans.
    — Dina Fine Maron, Scientific American, 12 May 2015
  • The ash from open burning can also contaminate soil and groundwater with persistent organic pollutants, heavy metals and other toxicants, creating more chances for people to be exposed to them through food and water.
    — Ellen M. Considine, The Conversation, 2 June 2026
  • Little ones are more vulnerable to environmental toxicants; their bodies and brains are developing, and early exposures to harmful substances can have lasting impacts.
    — Julia Belluz, Vox, 27 Sep. 2018
  • Interestingly, our group has recently shown that toxicants in food or food packaging, like pesticides, mercury and phthalates – chemicals used to manufacture plastics – can affect sleep.
    — Erica Jansen, Discover Magazine, 19 Jan. 2024
  • Environmental toxicants are equal-opportunity hazards; mercury, asbestos, pesticides and other compounds can cause health problems in humans and animals alike.
    — Emily Anthes, New York Times, 16 May 2017
  • These chemicals include carcinogens, mutagens, reproductive system and organ toxicants, and skin and respiratory irritants.
    — Joel Tickner, Scientific American, 25 Feb. 2023
  • Researchers found that 40% of the 97 participants had higher concentrations of a toxicant associated with the defunct LCP Chemicals plant than the national average.
    — CBS News, 12 June 2026
  • Heart medications, antidepressants, and ADHD medications, are also typical toxicants.
    — National Geographic, 29 Jan. 2020

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