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be contamination
noun
The act or process of contaminating; pollution; defilement; taint; also, that which contaminates.
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"It is a fact that there will be contamination, given the volume of the industry," said Mr. Contiero of Greenpeace.
But the Earth is hit by meteorites all the time, so they could be "contamination" from smaller impacts.At the moment, this idea is mere hypothesis.
[C1.] Poultry Producers Prepare for Avian Flu Fears Poultry producers and restaurants doubt that their chickens will be infected by avian flu or that people would catch the virus even if there were to be contamination.
Though critics would always explain such results as contamination of the sample by present day bacteria, the rigorous sterilization procedures followed by the West Chester biologists was "nudging closer and closer to the situation where you say it can't really be contamination," Dr. Grant said.
The girls are saying things like 'Kill me!' and 'Die!' It's too crazy…" Underneath the story, which was on various websites, there were comments saying it must be contamination in the girls' tampons from the machine in the school toilet, or that women are weak and therefore more susceptible to possession by devils.
But such compounds also could be contamination from the rover itself — or they may have rained onto the surface inside meteorites, said Paul Mahaffy, a mission scientist from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. "It's unclear if the carbon is Martian or terrestrial," Mahaffy said.
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Even if data are reproduced within and between laboratories, the obtained sequences can be contamination-derived since the reagents can carry the same sequences depending on the batch of the reagent and even across batches and suppliers, as seen for bovine mitochondrial DNA.
In addition to scarcity, there is contamination.
Then there is contamination of Mars.
"It was contamination off the banknotes".
A key concept in the Lachenmannian Weltanschauung is contamination.
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