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Definition of Adulterants
1. adulterant [n] - See also: adulterant
Lexicographical Neighbors of Adulterants
Literary usage of Adulterants
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Food Inspection and Analysis: For the Use of Public Analysts, Health by Albert Ernest Leach (1920)
"Composition of Miscellaneous Spice adulterants.—The chemical analyses of various
spice adulterants commonly met with are given on page 427. CLOVES. ..."
2. Biennial Report by California Dept. of Agriculture, California State Commission of Horticulture (1892)
"adulterants IN OLIVE OIL. The question of adulterants used in adulterating olive
oil has greatly exercised the minds of consumers, and the fraud having heen ..."
3. Elements of Applied Microscopy: A Text-boook for Beginners by Charles-Edward Amory Winslow (1905)
"FOODS AND DRUGS AND THEIR adulterants. 1. Microscopical Examination of Foods and
Drugs.— In the examination of foods and drugs for the detection of ..."
4. Bulletin by United States Bureau of Plant Industry, Division of Plant Industry, Queensland (1907)
"MINOR adulterants. Aside from Ruellia, the adulte runts of Spigelia may be regarded
as impurities, due in the main either to the carelessness of the ..."
5. Engineering Chemistry: A Manual of Quantitative Chemical Analysis by Thomas Bliss Stillman (1897)
"... many adulterants may be used in the cheaper grades, and many substances not
adulterants, the use of which is permitted as colorants and for perfume. ..."
6. Methods of Practical Hygiene by Karl Bernhard Lehmann (1893)
"Coffee and Coffee adulterants. § 357. The name coffee belongs only to the seed
of the coffee-tree (Coffea ..."
7. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"Naturally their chief adulterants are water and alcohol, to increase bulk or
strength ; colors and flavors, astringents, etc.— caramel, logwood, glycerine ..."
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