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soil pollution en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The pollution of soil, for example by sewage or toxic chemicals.
    • The major kinds of soil pollution are: Acidification, Salinisation and sodification, Agrochemical pollution Contamination by metalliferous water 2006, S. V. S. Rana, Environmental pollution: health and toxicology, Alpha Science International, Ltd., p. 89
    • Hookworm disease is closely associated with the soil. It may fairly be considered an infection the result of soil pollution. 1913, Milton Joseph Rosenau, Preventive medicine and hygiene, D. Appleton and Company, published 1914, page 688:

Translations (4)

fi maaperän saastuminen (pollution of soil) · hi मृदा प्रदूषण (pollution of soil) · ja 土壌汚染 (pollution of soil) · cmn 土壤污染 (pollution of soil)