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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A cancer-causing substance or agent.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Any substance that produces cancer.
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- noun A
substance oragent that cancause cancer .
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- noun any substance that produces cancer
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The term carcinogen refers to any substance, radionuclide or radiation that is an agent directly involved in the promotion of cancer or in the ... en. wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcinogens
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The term carcinogen refers to any substance, radionuclide or radiation that is an agent directly involved in the promotion of cancer or in the ... en. wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcinogens
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The term carcinogen refers to any substance, radionuclide or radiation that is an agent directly involved in the promotion of cancer or in the ... en. wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcinogens
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The term carcinogen refers to any substance, radionuclide or radiation that is an agent directly involved in the promotion of cancer or in the ... en. wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcinogens
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The term carcinogen refers to any substance, radionuclide or radiation that is an agent directly involved in the promotion of cancer or in the ... en. wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcinogens
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The term carcinogen refers to any substance, radionuclide or radiation that is an agent directly involved in the promotion of cancer or in the ... en. wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcinogens
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* disclaimer: depending on your use of the term carcinogen and how far you want to take it then yes, all air is carcinogenic and pretty much every item you come in contact with is carcinogenic as well.
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The carcinogen is often released by petrochemical plants and rubber and plastics manufacturers.
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Hydrocarbons such as benzene, a carcinogen, is a problem with gasoline.
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According to Prop. 65, a chemical must be listed if it is formally identified as a carcinogen or reproductive toxicant by an authoritative scientific body.
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reesetee commented on the word carcinogen
I always want this word to be about cars instead of cancer.
November 21, 2008