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- noun Plural form of
hazmat .
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Examples
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A two-mile stretch of northern New Jersey alone has a concentration of hazmats that could endanger the lives of millions in New York City.
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The government has established that there are 123 total concentrations of hazmats in the U.S., each of which threatens the lives of over one million people.
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Probably a longer lifetime than batteries, and less hazmats involved.
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Other hazmats used in their creation can seep into the environment through landfills with poisonous effects.
Isabel Cowles: Eco-Lectronics: Three Inspiring Green Gadgets 2009
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A two-mile stretch of northern New Jersey alone has a concentration of hazmats that could endanger the lives of millions in New York City.
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The government has established that there are 123 total concentrations of hazmats in the U.S., each of which threatens the lives of over one million people.
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The new legislation should limit the amounts of hazmats in individual rail cars and the train as a whole, the routes they take, tank car standards, independent inspection of tracks, switches and rail cars, and increased penalties for violations, and making the railroads liable for the damages they cause.
Charles Perrow and Lee Clarke: The Next Railroad Catastrophe 2008
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Why they are in hazmats i dont know because there is plent of people behind them including army people that arnt in hazmats.
Cloverfield Promotional Photos - BlackBook Dennis 2007
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They even checked for booby traps and hazmats again.
Step on a Crack Patterson, James, 1947- 2007
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In Uncommon Carriers, he travels across the U.S. in the purple cab of a shiny silver tanker truck carrying hazmats hazardous materials; up the Illinois River on a towboat pushing fifteen barges loaded with pig iron, steel coils, furnace coke, and fertilizer; with a truckload of lobsters from Nova Scotia to a holding facility outside the UPS hub in Louisville, Kentucky; and on a coal train from Kansas to Wyoming.
Uncommon Carriers by John McPhee ricklibrarian 2006
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