Sentence examples for a mixture of pollutants from inspiring English sources
Although we concentrated on exposure to ambient NO2 as a marker for combustion-derived air pollution, individuals are exposed to a mixture of pollutants.
And though it found insufficient evidence to link air quality with an array of diseases, it did find "suggestive" evidence that exposure to a mixture of pollutants had reduced pulmonary function in troops — that is, had affected their ability to breathe.
Guanabara Bay is characterized by predominant eutrophication and anoxic sediments with a mixture of pollutants.
Nowadays, wastewater is considered as a set of resources to be recovered rather than a mixture of pollutants that should be removed.
This model, with the experimental determination of activity coefficients, allowed an accurate description of PCE/TCE binary adsorption experimental data, thus being a reliable instrument for the design of industrial adsorption equipment for wastewater containing a mixture of pollutants.
Consequently, the health risk of breathing a mixture of pollutants may have been underestimated.
For example, an observed positive association could occur because the single air pollutant is a proxy for another air pollutant or for a mixture of air pollutants.
This makes it very difficult to isolate the health effects of individual pollutants because they act as indicators of a mixture of air pollutants coming from the same sources (Kjellstrom et al. 2002).
In this study we did not have sufficient power to more specifically identify the most important air pollution component or source, and we acknowledge that we studied a mixture of correlated pollutants.
For this purpose, a mixture of six pollutants, namely acetaminophen, carbamazepine, amoxicillin, acetamiprid, clofibric acid and caffeine, at an initial concentration of 5 mg L−1 each, has been employed.
In this study, the effects of a mixture of organic pollutants commonly found in industrial effluents (hydrocarbons, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, anionic detergent) on the uptake of ten metals and metalloids (MM), i.e. Al, As, Cd, Cr, Cu, Fe, Mn, Ni, Pb, and Zn, by five helophytes having a wide European distribution were studied.
