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Environmental Chemistry
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What are non-biodegradable pollutants?

Answer

These are materials such as mercury, aluminium, DDT etc. which do not undergo degradation or degrade very slowly but their presence even in very small amounts in the environment is very harmful for the humans as well as plants.

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