toxicity

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Some of this toxicity is associated with the widely acclaimed method of minimum tillage.

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  1. noun The quality or condition of being toxic.
  2. noun The degree to which a substance is toxic.

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  • Some of this toxicity is associated with the widely acclaimed method of minimum tillage. —  Cornucopia Institute
  • These root causes can include parasites, heavy metal toxicity which is more common than you'd expect and organ congestion. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • Sky News has in fact taken the same decision for the same reason, but, as ever, the fact that the BBC is paid for by a poll tax lends its decisions a political toxicity which is peculiar to itself. —  The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
  • The study found that the drug combination showed an anti-tumor response in about 30 percent of the 22 young sarcoma patients who received the drugs, and that the toxicity was manageable.
  • The authors showed that a low amount of vitamin D boosted the ability of progesterone to protect neurons from excito-toxicity, a principal cause of brain injury and cell death.
 

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/tɑkˈsɪsəti/
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