Deleterious

(adj) injurious

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Rather the opposite in fact, channeling money from government to government has been shown to be positively deleterious to those receiving it.

It would, however, be very deleterious if important subjects were not adequately covered. 

We have also been attempting to estimate the rate of adaptive amino acid substitution and the proportion of mutations which are slightly deleterious.


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Chemical Additives

Smoking

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Deleterious means injurious or can cause harm to one.  The articles explains about the chemicals in food or smoking that can harm others.  They can be very "deleterious"




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