Question

Diffrentiate between pollutants and toxicants

Answer 1

What is the difference between toxins and toxicants? ... But, toxins are natural products such as the ones found in poisonous mushrooms, or in a snakes' venom. Toxicants are man-made products, artificial products introduced into the environment due to human activity; examples are industrial waste products and pesticides.

Answer 2

Answer:

Pollutants are the substances that render the natural substances/resources such as air, water, soil etc.

WHEREAS

Toxicants are the foreign substances which are introduced to the nature by artificial activities, which in result harms the nature.

Explanation:

• Pollutants are the chemicals which are the result of direct or maybe indirect disposal of substances into the environment by human beings. These chemically hazardous pollutants result being harmful to the living organisms and account for acute or chronic problems to human health.
• Toxicants are the chemical, biological or radiological substances that can be usually found in air, water or soil. Toxicants in the workplace can definitely account for a risk to workers.
• These can be classified into surface toxicants like molds or fungi, or can be airborne like vapors as well as gases.