All contaminant synonyms

noun contaminant

• contaminator — to make impure or unsuitable by contact or mixture with something unclean, bad, etc.: to contaminate a lake with sewage.
• impurity — the quality or state of being impure.
• poison — a substance with an inherent property that tends to destroy life or impair health.
• toxin — any poison produced by an organism, characterized by antigenicity in certain animals and high molecular weight, and including the bacterial toxins that are the causative agents of tetanus, diphtheria, etc., and such plant and animal toxins as ricin and snake venom.
• pollutant — something that pollutes.
• contamination — the act or process of contaminating or the state of being contaminated
• adulterant — a substance or ingredient that adulterates
• waste product — material discarded as useless in the process of producing something.
• chemical — Chemical means involving or resulting from a reaction between two or more substances, or relating to the substances that something consists of.