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Pollution vs Toxicant - What's the difference?

pollution | toxicant |

As nouns the difference between pollution and toxicant

is that pollution is the act of polluting or the state of being polluted, especially the contamination of the environment by harmful substances while toxicant is a toxic or poisonous substance.

As an adjective toxicant is

capable of causing damage by poisoning.

pollution

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of polluting or the state of being polluted, especially the contamination of the environment by harmful substances.
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  • Something that pollutes; a pollutant.
  • (archaic) Physical defilement.
  • (medicine, obsolete) The emission of semen at other times than in sexual intercourse.
  • * 1839 , Robley Dunglison, Medical Lexicon'', Blanchard, page 492 defines ''POLLUTION as:
  • The excretion of seminal liquor or sperm, at other times than during coition. When occasioned by a voluntary act it is called, simply, Pollution'' or ''Masturbation'' (q.v.); when excited, during sleep, by lascivious dreams, it takes the name ''Noctur'nal pollution, Exoneiro'sis, Oneirog'mos, Oneirog'onos, Gonorrhœ'a dormien'tium, G. oneirog'onos, G. Vera, G. libidino'sa, Proflu'vium Sem'inis, Spermatorrhœ'a, Paronir'ia salax, Night pollution.

    Synonyms

    * soilage * (masturbation) self-pollution

    Antonyms

    * conservation * purity

    Derived terms

    * air pollution * light pollution * noise pollution * self-pollution * soil pollution * water pollution

    toxicant

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Capable of causing damage by poisoning
  • Noun

    (wikipedia toxicant) (en noun)
  • A toxic or poisonous substance