Sentence examples for contaminated mainly from inspiring English sources

Seventy-five percent of lakes and rivers and over half the groundwater are contaminated, mainly from manufacturing and agriculture.

An experimental barrier was built on premises of a chemical factory contaminated mainly by various organic pollutants [benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and xylenes (BTEX), chlorobenzenes, naphthalene, nitro-derivatives, phenols, trichloroethylene (TCE), and total petroleum hydrocarbon (TPH)].

The interferograms are contaminated mainly by ionospheric disturbances, which are corrected by GNSS data.

Liver cirrhosis was related to drinking water contaminated mainly with iron, like in sample No (3) in Mit-ghamr district.

This occurs because the comparison between FRFs from intact and damaged can be contaminated mainly in the lower frequencies.

The isolated fraction of spermatocytes was contaminated mainly with round spermatids due to their tendency to form multinucleated cells.

According to Jacobs et al. [19] Zone 2 was preferably overflown with polluted waters from the formerly highly contaminated Spittelwasser; at regressing floodwater sedimentation of highly contaminated material mainly took place in these low-leveled areas.

For the commercial glycans, purity was higher than 95% and mainly contaminated with hydrolysis products as assessed by HPAEC-PAD analysis.

Indeed, differences between controls and contaminated treatments were mainly due to an overall reduction in densities of the most abundant species in contaminated treatments.

The large urban and industrial areas (e.g. Naples, Salerno) along the coastline are mainly contaminated by Pb and Zn due to heavy traffic and alloy production.

Thus, the soil is contaminated with PAHs mainly from atmospheric depositions, directly or via vegetation, or in the case of arable soil with biowaste used as fertilizers [2].