- plural of toxin.
toxins
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Many such toxins are organic molecules produced by organisms as chemical weapons against predators or competing organisms.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 25, 2026
Chemours, DuPont de Nemours and Corteva have settled with North Carolina and 11 communities that were excluded from a previous settlement over drinking-water toxins.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
The scientific research in those cases involved work around the mosquito-born chikungunya virus, a "highly-pathogenic" strain of the bird flu, a family of viruses that include smallpox and mpox, venoms and other toxins.
From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026
The river also emits airborne toxins including noxious hydrogen sulfide gas, which causes asthma, headaches and other ailments in neighboring communities.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
But Henrietta’s body had become so contaminated with toxins normally flushed from the system in urine, her cells died immediately in culture.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
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