Toxicant

This article is about artificial and natural toxic substances. For naturally occurring organic poisons, see Toxin.

A toxicant is any toxic substance, whether artificial or naturally occurring.[1] By contrast, a toxin is a poison produced naturally by an organism (e.g. plant, animal, insect, bacterium).[2] The different types of toxicants[3] can be found in the air, soil, water, or food.[4]

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  3. ^ Stanley Manahan; Stanley E. Manahan (17 December 2009). Environmental Chemistry, Ninth Edition. CRC Press. pp. 629–. ISBN 978-1-4398-8247-4.
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