Contaminated
Contaminated adjective - Containing foreign or lower-grade substances.
Hazardous and contaminated are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Hazardous" instead an adjective "Contaminated".
Hazardous
Hazardous adjective - Involving potential loss or injury.
Contaminated and hazardous are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Contaminated" instead an adjective "Hazardous".
Both words in one sentence
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Also noteworthy for being brewed next to the site of an old gasworks that was so badly contaminated with hazardous chemical waste that it took a couple of decades to clean it up well enough to be safely built on... at which point production of Castlemaine moved elsewhere.
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At least one part of the stereotype is somewhat Truth in Television: New Jersey has the dubious distinction of being home to more Superfund sites (sites that are contaminated with radioactive or otherwise chemically toxic hazardous materials in need of cleanup) than any other state.
Source: Useful Notes / New Jersey
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