As a heavy metal, it is also chemically poisonous in addition to being radioactively poisonous.
The EPA and automakers argue the EPA is charged only with regulating poisonous stuff.
But countless dangers lurk: poisonous gases, flooded tunnels, explosive vapors and unstable walls and roofs.
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Alas, though, the case is symptomatic of the poisonous politics in the U.S. today.
Then, in July 1992, a deadly red tide of poisonous plankton struck the bay.
The introduction of poisonous spores devastated the potato crop in Ireland in the 1840s.
Sharpshooters are standing by, armed with rifles to protect divers against alligators and poisonous snakes.
Unlike conventional batteries, however, no poisonous chemicals are used to make Dr Ajayan's paper.
In 2006, Blacksmith started cataloging hyper-polluted hot spots around the world to draw attention to their poisonous effects.
Unfortunately, the American body politic is currently under assault as well from a poisonous offering.
But phenols are poisonous to human cells, too, and thus have to be neutralised.
Those same polls, though, show that Cheney is more polarizing and poisonous to swing voters now.
It's going to dredge the Hudson River to scrape up poisonous chemicals it dumped there years ago.
But the case here is more one of poisonous dirt and dust being caught up and spread.
More particularly the rhetoric and tone of the discussions are considerably less poisonous than they were previously.
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In 1925, 29 countries signed the Geneva Protocol which prohibited the use of poisonous gases in war.
The result is a poisonous mix that means Zynga has to hemorrhage money just to tread water.
First, there is the collusive and poisonous relationship between British government ministers and Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.
Other species apparently reckon that nasty tastes are a powerful evolutionary signal that something may be poisonous.
This week's conviction, though expected, has injected even more venom into Italian political life, poisonous enough already.
Hardy's staging captures the nightmarishly comical yet chilling atmosphere that Strindberg must have envisioned for this poisonous couple.
Barer put David Stirling, one of his best chemists, in charge of trying to fix this poisonous molecule.
One theory is that sensitivity to bitter flavor could have evolved as a protective mechanism against poisonous plants.
Labour productivity has soared, but the result could be a poisonous combination of deep recession followed by jobless recovery.
It is genetically engineered to produce a particular strain of Bt, a substance that is poisonous to some insects.
Two men have been caught harvesting thousands of potentially poisonous shellfish in waters containing "high levels of E. coli".
They consist largely of blue-green strains that are poisonous and cause skin irritation.
Does he believe the last year has been marked by a poisonous tone, or has there been any improvement?
Lauren Booth, 24, was asleep when her son Aaron drank the poisonous liquid at their home in Norris Close, Huddersfield.
Pulsutilla, another ingredient in ColdCalm, is a poisonous plant that produces toxins that slow the heart and can cause convulsions.
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