toxic leak
Hazardous substance spill
A toxic leak is the escape of poisonous or hazardous substances from their containment—chemicals seeping from storage tanks, gases venting from industrial facilities, or pollutants entering water supplies.
The phrase emphasizes danger: A toxic leak forced evacuation of the neighborhood.
Figuratively, it can describe harmful information escaping: a toxic leak of internal emails.
- oil spillPetroleum released into water
- spillAccidental liquid release
- chemicalSubstance with defined composition
- chemical plantFactory producing synthetic substances
- hazardousLikely to cause injury
hazmat suit · contamination · fumes · poison · waste · seepage · rupture · corrosive · evacuation · danger zone · barrel · pipeline · sludge · biohazard · groundwater · plume · industrial · environmental disaster
- industrial accidentsindustrial accident, explosion, factory fire, mine explosion, mine disaster
- toxic spillschemical spill, oil spill, acid spill, fuel spill, tanker spill
- disastersdisaster, earthquake, earthquakes, catastrophe, floods
- hazmat gearhazmat suit, SCBA, respirator, gas mask, chemical suit
toxic leakenvironmental cleanup
Restoring polluted areas
decontamination · remediation · environmental restoration · pollution control · detoxification
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