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Perhaps, but it also gave an immediacy bordering on desperation to a story of teenage identity, poisonous social media and murder.

Part of the reasoning in 2018 was site investigations found the ground underlain with peat deposits, as well as toxic and phytotoxic - meaning poisonous to plants - risk from shallow soils.

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Its poisonous thorns also injure livestock, leaving them too weak to roam for food, he added.

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Promotion of knowledge and understanding has given way to inculcation of a poisonous fringe ideology.

The scientists discovered that the reaction between hydrogen sulfide -- a poisonous gas -- and solid iron minerals is not only a chemical process, but also a biological one.

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