Sentence examples for contamination down from inspiring English sources

In Los Alamos, crews have built dams to try to keep runoff from spreading contamination down denuded gullies to the Rio Grande.

The fine-textured soil developed from Jurassic limestone exhibits a chromium, copper, nickel, and zinc contamination down to depths of more than 4 m.

Peryea does the math for 1 acre: "If you have contamination down to three feet, you're looking at getting rid of three acre-feet of soil that's twelve million pounds of soil".

Contamination shut down much of the postal system, drove members of Congress and Supreme Court justices from their offices and touched off a national panic.

In June a viral contamination shut down its plant, causing a severe drug shortage.

We present a specially designed handheld measuring device that can detect organic contamination levels down to 100 ng/cm² with measurement times shorter than a second.

Knowing whether the tuna you're eating has high or low contamination boils down to knowing the answer to, "What kind of tuna, exactly, am I eating right now?" There are many species of tuna: bluefin (Atlantic, Pacific, and southern), albacore, bigeye, skipjack... these sound familiar.

"This contamination is migrating down and down, and soon it is going to show up in a well," he said.

At the 0.1% level of overall spike-in, cross-contamination down to 1% could be reliably detected above the background contamination and sample-to-sample SASI read variation, within the experiment.

"The contamination is going down, but it will take dozens of years for nature to bring it down to safe levels," Valery Kashparov, director of the Ukrainian Institute of Agricultural Radiology, told Discovery.

An estimated 9,000 absentee ballots, many of which were mailed in to the San Francisco Department of Elections, were taken on Tuesday to an auditorium instead of City Hall for fear that any possible anthrax contamination could close down the building.