contaminants

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Coagulation plays a key role because microplastics and other contaminants carry a negative electrical charge.

From Science Daily • Apr. 20, 2026

The company's process removes the contaminants and turns the nutrients into forms that can be taken up by plants, creating an "effective, safe - and odourless - fertiliser", she emphasised.

From BBC • Apr. 2, 2026

“We welcome any step that takes microplastics and emerging contaminants seriously,” said Kelly Shannon McNeill, managing director of the nonprofit environmental group Los Angeles Waterkeeper.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 2, 2026

This week, Brett Berk reports on efforts to develop AI-powered e-noses that can smell health conditions, sniff out airborne contaminants, or even develop perfumes more quickly and cheaply.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

Such materials, present as contaminants in water that also contains chemicals, may actually change the nature of the chemicals by the impact of ionizing radiation, rearranging their atoms in unpredictable ways to create new chemicals.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson