Wednesday, October 20, 2010

What is adulteration?

What is adulteration?
to make something impure by adding something to it.
Adulterant means any material, which is or could be employed for the purpose of Adulteration.
To make impure by adding extraneous, improper, or inferior ingredients.
(So my description would be that it's like watering down gasoline)
a·dul·ter·a·tion
–noun
1. the act or process of adulterating.
2. the state of being adulterated.
3. something adulterated.
a·dul·ter·ate
-verb
1. to debase or make impure by adding inferior materials or elements; use cheaper, inferior, or less desirable goods in the production of (any professedly genuine article): to adulterate food.
a·dul·ter·ous
–adjective
1. characterized by or involved in adultery; illicit: an adulterous relationship.
Diluting the purity of one by adding the other.

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