adulteration
IPA: ʌdʌɫtɝˈeɪʃʌn
noun
- The process of adulterating.
- The condition of being adulterated.
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Examples of "adulteration" in Sentences
- Soap is subject to another kind of adulteration called filling, or weighting.
- Why are you always promoting some kind of adulteration or debasement of our culture?
- They also know how to select herbs from reputable producers so that the risk of adulteration is minimized.
- When this method was first introduced, it was calumniated and despised -- called adulteration of wine, and even prohibited by the governments of Europe; but, DR.
- In other words, the rapidly changing styles of to-day and the limited supply of wool are responsible for the wholesale adulteration which is being practised in modern cloth manufacture.
- It has also highlighted, again like past committees, the need to eliminate adulteration which is leading to a leakage of as much as 35 percent of kerosene supplies from the public distribution system.
- When thus, by depreciation in consequence of the quantity of paper in circulation, wages as well as prices become exorbitant, it is soon found that the whole effect of the adulteration is a tariff on our home industry for the benefit of the countries where gold and silver circulate and maintain uniformity and moderation in prices.
- When thus, by the depreciation in consequence of the quantity of paper in circulation, wages as well as prices become exorbitant, it is soon found that the whole effect of the adulteration is a tariff on our home industry for the benefit of the countries where gold and silver circulate and maintain uniformity and moderation in prices.
- On returning to his native land, he still continued to turn his chemical knowledge to account, by giving his services to that particular branch of our commercial industry which is commonly described as the adulteration of commodities; and from this he had gradually risen to the more refined pursuit of adulterating gold and silver -- or, to use the common phrase again, making bad money.
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