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Presence of an unwanted element
Contamination is the presence of a constituent, impurity, or some other undesirable element that renders something unsuitable, unfit or harmful for the physical body, natural environment, workplace, etc. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: ContaminationA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: RETRACTED: Sources, effects and present perspectives of heavy metals contamination: Soil, plants and human food chainInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Reviews of Environmental Contamination and ToxicologyThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Purity of the sacred lotus, or escape from contamination in biological surfacesCited 6,443 times
- Go sideways: Food contaminantA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Radioactive contaminationA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun The act or process of contaminating.
Noun Something which contaminates.
Noun A process whereby words with related meanings come to have similar sounds.
Noun The influence of one form (often from a foreign language) on the historical development of another form to which it may be related in meaning.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Purity of the sacred lotus, or escape from contamination in biological surfaces
Hazards of heavy metal contamination
Quantitative assessment of worldwide contamination of air, water and soils by trace metals
Reagent and laboratory contamination can critically impact sequence-based microbiome analyses
Soil Contamination in China: Current Status and Mitigation Strategies
A low-contamination method for hydrothermal decomposition of zircon and extraction of U and Pb for isotopic age determinations
The application of a ThHfTa diagram to problems of tectonomagmatic classification and to establishing the nature of crustal contamination of basaltic lavas of the British Tertiary Volcanic Province
SoupX removes ambient RNA contamination from droplet-based single-cell RNA sequencing data
🆕 Influential since 2022
RETRACTED: Sources, effects and present perspectives of heavy metals contamination: Soil, plants and human food chain
Contamination of textile dyes in aquatic environment: Adverse impacts on aquatic ecosystem and human health, and its management using bioremediation
Heavy Metal Contamination in Agricultural Soil: Environmental Pollutants Affecting Crop Health
Rapid and sensitive detection of genome contamination at scale with FCS-GX
Linking microbial contamination to food spoilage and food waste: the role of smart packaging, spoilage risk assessments, and date labeling
📚 Books worth reading
Reviews of Environmental Contamination and ToxicologyGeorge W. Ware · 1995
Reviews of environmental contamination and toxicologyGeorge W. Ware, Arthur Bevenue · 1997
The Andromeda StrainMichael Crichton · 1969
Residue Reviews/Rückstands-BerichteFrancis A. Gunther · 1963
A civil actionJonathan Harr · 1995
Reviews of Environmental Contamination and ToxicologyGeorge Ware · 2004
Formation TestingWilson C. Chin, Yanmin Zhou · 2014
Food poisoning and food hygieneBetty C. Hobbs · 1953
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