Dioxin

//daɪˈɒksɪn//

Synonyms for "dioxin" (1 found)

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Noun(1 words)

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Bulgarian

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  • диокси́н noun (any of a broad range of toxic or carcinogenic halogenated polycyclic compounds)

Chinese Mandarin

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  • 二噁英 /二𫫇英 noun (any of a broad range of toxic or carcinogenic halogenated polycyclic compounds)

Danish

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  • dioxin noun (any of a broad range of toxic or carcinogenic halogenated polycyclic compounds)

Finnish

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  • dioksiini noun (any of a broad range of toxic or carcinogenic halogenated polycyclic compounds)

French

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  • dioxine noun (any of a broad range of toxic or carcinogenic halogenated polycyclic compounds)

German

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  • Dioxin noun (any of a broad range of toxic or carcinogenic halogenated polycyclic compounds)

Hebrew

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  • דיאוקסין noun (any of a broad range of toxic or carcinogenic halogenated polycyclic compounds)

Hungarian

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  • dioxin noun (any of a broad range of toxic or carcinogenic halogenated polycyclic compounds)

Japanese

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  • ダイオキシン noun (any of a broad range of toxic or carcinogenic halogenated polycyclic compounds)

Kazakh

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  • диоксин noun (any of a broad range of toxic or carcinogenic halogenated polycyclic compounds)

Korean

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  • 다이옥신 noun (any of a broad range of toxic or carcinogenic halogenated polycyclic compounds)

Latvian

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  • dioksīns noun (any of a broad range of toxic or carcinogenic halogenated polycyclic compounds)

Norwegian Bokmål

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  • dioksin noun (any of a broad range of toxic or carcinogenic halogenated polycyclic compounds)

Norwegian Nynorsk

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  • dioksin noun (any of a broad range of toxic or carcinogenic halogenated polycyclic compounds)

Polish

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  • dioksyna noun (any of a broad range of toxic or carcinogenic halogenated polycyclic compounds)

Portuguese

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  • dioxina noun (any of a broad range of toxic or carcinogenic halogenated polycyclic compounds)

Romanian

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  • dioxină noun (any of a broad range of toxic or carcinogenic halogenated polycyclic compounds)

Russian

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  • диоксин noun (any of a broad range of toxic or carcinogenic halogenated polycyclic compounds)

Swedish

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  • dioxin noun (any of a broad range of toxic or carcinogenic halogenated polycyclic compounds)

Sample sentences

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Dioxin is very dangerous.

Source: tatoeba (1700637)

Even the mayor breathes dioxin.

Source: tatoeba (1700639)

The decontamination will involve testing and gathering affected soil and heating it to high temperature to burn off leftover dioxin.

Source: tatoeba (11847179)

Dioxin is a specific organic unsaturated non-antiaromatic six-membered ring compound with a chemical formula of C4H4O2. However, the term dioxin is used generically by most authorities to include chlorinated dioxins with furans and many derivative compounds as a complex of at least 75 ubiquitous and environmentally persistent organochlorine compounds, of variable toxicity.

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