Explore Dioxin through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like hydrocarbon. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Dioxin meaning
- The unsaturated six-membered heterocycle having four carbon atoms, two oxygen atoms, and two double bonds (molecular formula C₄H₄O₂); 1,2-dioxin and 1,4-dioxin.
- The parent compound dibenzo-1,4-dioxin or dibenzo-p-dioxin (molecular formula C₁₂H₈O₂), in which two benzene rings are connected through two oxygen atoms; dibenzodioxin, oxanthrene.
- Any of a broad range of toxic or carcinogenic halogenated polycyclic compounds that occur as byproducts of herbicides.
Synonyms of Dioxin
Using Dioxin
- The main meaning on this page is: The unsaturated six-membered heterocycle having four carbon atoms, two oxygen atoms, and two double bonds (molecular formula C₄H₄O₂); 1,2-dioxin and 1,4-dioxin. | The parent compound dibenzo-1,4-dioxin or dibenzo-p-dioxin (molecular formula C₁₂H₈O₂), in which two benzene rings are connected through two oxygen atoms; dibenzodioxin, oxanthrene. | Any of a broad range of toxic or carcinogenic halogenated polycyclic compounds that occur as byproducts of herbicides.
- Useful related words include: hydrocarbon.
- In the example corpus, dioxin often appears in combinations such as: of dioxin, dioxin formation, dioxin levels.
Context around Dioxin
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 5 middle, 9 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Dioxin
- In this selection, "dioxin" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 21.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, epa, high, small, levels, formation and inventory stand out and add context to how "dioxin" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include acknowledged that dioxin in cigarettes and contaminated with dioxin residue. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "dioxin" sits close to words such as aditi, aegon and aerobics, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with dioxin
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Dioxin accumulates over the years. (5 words)
High dioxin levels were also detected in eggs as far as 10 km away. (14 words)
However, research on populations exposed to its dioxin contaminant have been inconsistent and inconclusive. (14 words)
Brussels, 26 July 2000 The Commission states (page 27) that it has been suggested that the reduction of the chlorine content in the waste can contribute to the reduction of dioxin formation, even though the actual mechanism is not fully understood. (41 words)
On 26 January 2012, the U.S. Center For Disease Control's Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry challenged this with their finding that former spray aircraft were indeed contaminated and the aircrews exposed to harmful levels of dioxin. (40 words)
A UH-1D helicopter from the 336th Aviation Company sprays a defoliation agent over farmland in the Mekong Delta Effects on the Vietnamese people main Health effects Major Tự Đức Phang was exposed to dioxin-contaminated Agent Orange. (38 words)
Example sentences (20)
According to the EPA dioxin inventory, landfill fires are likely to represent an even larger source of dioxin to the environment.
High dioxin levels were also detected in eggs as far as 10 km away.
I didn’t know what dioxin was and my dad’s an Agent Orange vet.
Paper mills in the South and their leachate grounds are hotbeds of dioxin waste contamination.
Whether glyphosate is cancer-causing or not is far beyond the scope of this article, however, it is true that, like dioxin, we are exposed to glyphosate in many food products.
A UH-1D helicopter from the 336th Aviation Company sprays a defoliation agent over farmland in the Mekong Delta Effects on the Vietnamese people main Health effects Major Tự Đức Phang was exposed to dioxin-contaminated Agent Orange.
Brussels, 26 July 2000 The Commission states (page 27) that it has been suggested that the reduction of the chlorine content in the waste can contribute to the reduction of dioxin formation, even though the actual mechanism is not fully understood.
Dioxin accumulates over the years.
Extensive testing for dioxin contamination has been conducted at the former U.S. airbases in Da Nang, Phu Cat and Bien Hoa.
However, research on populations exposed to its dioxin contaminant have been inconsistent and inconclusive.
In 1994, testing by the Air Force identified some former spray aircraft as "heavily contaminated" with dioxin residue.
In 2005, the first U.S.-Vietnam workshop on remediation of dioxin was held.
In that same document, the US EPA acknowledged that dioxin in cigarettes is "anthropogenic" (man-made, "not likely in nature").
It is most likely that the main incineration parameters, such as the temperature and the oxygen concentration, have a major influence on the dioxin formation".
It was disbanded by Governor Christine Todd Whitman in 1996. citation During Pointman I, commission researchers devised ways to determine small dioxin levels in blood.
On 26 January 2012, the U.S. Center For Disease Control's Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry challenged this with their finding that former spray aircraft were indeed contaminated and the aircrews exposed to harmful levels of dioxin.
Over 9 kilos of dioxin have been discharged into the city's air by its factories.
PCBs that have dioxin -like activity are known to cause a variety of teratogenic effects in animals.
Recent information is showing for example that dioxin levels in populations near incinerators in Lisbon and Madeira have not risen since the plants began operating in 1999 and 2002 respectively.
Some of the soil and sediment on the bases have extremely high levels of dioxin requiring remediation.
Common combinations with dioxin
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- of dioxin 11×
- dioxin formation 5×
- dioxin levels 3×
- dioxin contamination 3×
- that dioxin 3×
- dioxin was 2×
- and dioxin 2×
- dioxin in 2×
- have dioxin 2×
- dioxin -like 2×