Sentences with dioxin
di·ox·in
D d - Burning, whether accidentally or in waste incineration, also releases dioxins, which are persistent environmental pollutants.It is generally felt that the dioxin produced by the manufacture of the herbicide is a much more serious environmental threat than the herbicide itself.A dioxin is a chemical product, usually a poisonous one, which is produced when some herbicides and bactericides are made.
- The primary ingredient was the now outlawed herbicide 2,4,5-T, contaminated by varying levels of the deadly dioxin TCDD.
- Doctors confirm the Ukrainian presidential hopeful is a victim of dioxin poisoning probably put in his food.
- The level of dioxin poison in the blood of Ukrainian presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko is more than 6000 times higher than normal.
- Day and be buried without the kind of post-mortem examination that would have revealed the dioxin and the other poison.