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Contamination

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  • 1. To make something less pure or make it poisonous (Cambridge dictionary). 2. Carry-over from a preceding sample probe into a following specimen cup, which will influence not just one result, but all assays on that specimen, or with that reagent. (IUPAC dictionary). 3. the act of contaminating, or of rendering something harmful or unusable by the addition of radioactive material (dictionary.com)

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