Debris vs Impurity - What's the difference?
debris | impurity |
Rubble, wreckage, scattered remains of something destroyed.
* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=December 21, author=David M. Halbfinger, Charles V. Bagli and Sarah Maslin Nir, title=On Ravaged Coastline, It’s Rebuild Deliberately vs. Rebuild Now, work=New York Times
, passage=His neighbors were still ripping out debris . But Mr. Ryan, a retired bricklayer who built his house by hand 30 years ago only to lose most of it to Hurricane Sandy, was already hard at work rebuilding. }}
Litter and discarded refuse.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= The ruins of a broken-down structure
(geology) Large rock fragments left by a melting glacier etc.
The condition of being impure; because of contamination, pollution, adulteration or insufficient purification.
A component or additive that renders something else impure.
* {{quote-magazine, title=A better waterworks, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838
, page=5 (Technology Quarterly), magazine=(The Economist)
A state of immorality or sin; especially the weakness of the flesh: inchastity.
As nouns the difference between debris and impurity
is that debris is rubble, wreckage, scattered remains of something destroyed while impurity is the condition of being impure; because of contamination, pollution, adulteration or insufficient purification.debris
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(-)citation
Welcome to the plastisphere, passage=[The researchers] noticed many of their pieces of [plastic marine] debris sported surface pits around two microns across. Such pits are about the size of a bacterial cell. Closer examination showed that some of these pits did, indeed, contain bacteria, […].}}
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*impurity
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(impurities)citation, passage=An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.}}
