Word: toxication
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...Some junk needs to be handled delicately, which doesn't routinely happen in India. The coast of Gujarat state in western India is the world's biggest naval graveyard, but many of the ships have specialized in carrying poisonous materials. According to the government, about 12,500 tons of toxic waste end up in the Arabian Sea each year. In the past few years, India has insourced the disposal of old computers, which contain lead, arsenic, cadmium and bromides. The country is also the biggest single importer of mercury-contaminated industrial waste...
Current methods of treating T-cell acute lymphocytic leukemia include a combination of chemotherapy drugs which are highly toxic not only to cancer cells, but also to healthy cells. Even then, approximately one quarter of patients experience relapse...
...think [our therapy] is better because it’s more specific and thus less toxic,” said Aster...
...Ministry confirmed that Zvástová's post office had been attacked by a mixture of chloropicrin and phosgene, two chemicals used during World War I as choking agents. A second attack occurred at a bank in the same building four days later. In neither case was the toxic concentration high enough to cause permanent injury. But it was enough to put the government on the alert. European terrorism experts tell Time that the attacks do not suggest jihadist terrorists, who tend to maximize damage and casualties. However, if the attacks turn out to be acts of terrorism, they...
...form of water, which for precautionary reasons has been made unavailable to customers.” No one from the company was present to acknowledge the award, but Hershbach used his chemical expertise to explain the magnitude of the achievement. Dasani, he said, had twice the legal limit of toxic bromates...