'impurity' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to something that is not in its pure form or that is contaminated in some way. For example: "The water was found to contain a significant impurity."
Impurity is worse than frailty because an impure person has allowed an incentive other than the moral law to guide her actions while the frail person tries, but fails, to do the right thing for the right reason (Kant 1793, Bk I, 25 26).
In honour of Verdi's and Shakespeare's "globe of impurity", the magnificently gluttonous Sir John Falstaff (sung and acted with brilliant, gleeful energy and insight by Johanthan Veira), I enjoyed a San Miguel during act two's shenanigans, as Ford and the Merry Wives end up dumping Sir John in the Thames.
What could be more natural, then, than to team up with Islam and popery to cleanse that terrible impurity?
The town, in his view, is devoted to marketing fantasies of a pure, local culture, whereas he wanted to convey "the impurity of cultural overlap".
Hindu tradition, seen for example in the "Laws of Manu", a Hindu text some 2,000 years old, encourages defecation in the open, far from home, to avoid ritual impurity.
Mr Bonnel describes it as "a huge nightmare" that can lead to charges of impurity.
Iron is present as an impurity.
Since the conduction electron and the impurity both have spin, they can mutually flip spins while scattering.
Presumably they went a week early, as did tens of thousands of other Jews (perhaps as many as 200,000 or 300,000), in order to be cleansed of "corpse-impurity," in accordance with Numbers 9 10 12 and 19 1 22.
Sandpaper is typically made from silicate, with different impurities added depending on the hardness or coarseness of the sandpaper.
Lead is hard to date, but when it is mixed with other materials impurities emerge, at varying paces, as surface deposits; that can provide some clues about the history of a lead object.
