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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of biomagnify.

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Examples

  • Years later, scientists learned that DDT is "biomagnified" up the food chain, harming fish, birds, humans, and other life.

    The Georgia Straight - News And Views 2009

  • "biomagnified" in cycad-eating flying foxes - fruit bats.

    Scientific American 2010

  • Every EPA model that estimates risk in humans says bad things are biomagnified in eggs and animal fat.

    Gary Liberson: Cancer, Chemicals and Setting Priorities 2010

  • The contaminants released from these frozen stores, and those originating from long-range transport and deposition in contributing basins, can then be stored in sediments or metabolized and biomagnified through the food web.

    Effects of climate change on hydro-ecology of contributing basins in the Arctic 2009

  • Additionally, because algal toxins can be bioaccumulated, biotransferred and biomagnified through food chains and food webs, aquatic and terrestrial animals can also be indirectly exposed to toxins when they consume other animals containing toxins.

    Inorganic nitrogen pollution in aquatic ecosystems~ causes and consequences 2007

  • The theory led to a flurry of investigations into the possible role of biomagnified BMAA toxicity in neurodegenerative disease.

    Scientific American 2010

  • Cox, think the potential for biomagnified BMAA to kill neurons should be studied in the interest of public health.

    Scientific American 2010

  • But Cox and Sacks argued the lack of indigenous cycads in Samoa meant the imports didn't contain cycad toxins, and that Chamorros were no longer being exposed to biomagnified BMAA.

    Scientific American 2010

  • Start by removing from your diet and environment whatever toxins you can: processed foods with added chemicals; animal products that carry a "biointesified and biomagnified" load of agricultural toxins; conventional cosmetics and toiletries you absorb those chemicals through your skin; and whatever electromagnetic radiation you can cut down on by, for example, having a land-line phone that attaches to the wall, and charging your cell phone and computer somewhere other than in the room where you sleep.

    Ageless Living in a Culture of Youth 2011

  • Start by removing from your diet and environment whatever toxins you can: processed foods with added chemicals; animal products that carry a "biointesified and biomagnified" load of agricultural toxins; conventional cosmetics and toiletries you absorb those chemicals through your skin; and whatever electromagnetic radiation you can cut down on by, for example, having a land-line phone that attaches to the wall, and charging your cell phone and computer somewhere other than in the room where you sleep.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Victoria Moran 2011

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