How One Company Secretly Poisoned The Planet – YouTube Dictation Transcript & Vocabulary
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1.In 1929 in Chicago, people kept mysteriously dying inside their homes
2.It took 15 deaths for the authorities to realize that these people were getting killed by
3.their fridges because fridges back then were no longer just boxes of ice
4.Instead, they relied on a chemical looping through the back to stay cold
5.And the best chemical for the job was methyl chloride, a toxic and virtually odorless gas
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Schlüsselvokabular (CEFR C1)
advantage
B1Any condition, circumstance, opportunity or means, particularly favorable to success, or to any desired end.
Example:
"to meet the military's demand. As their Arlington scientists put it, the major advantages of polytetrafluoroethylene,"
someone's
B1A B1-level word commonly used in this context.
Example:
"No one is ever gonna use this. You should do something that someone's actually gonna use. So how about you put it on a pan? Make a pan non-stick.""
naturally
B1In a natural manner.
Example:
"where's this coming from? Because this is not a naturally occurring substance."
occurring
B1To happen or take place.
Example:
"where's this coming from? Because this is not a naturally occurring substance."
population's
B2A B2-level word commonly used in this context.
Example:
""Hey, we found this stuff in the general US population's blood. You know, could it be yours?""
communities
B2A group sharing a common understanding, and often the same language, law, manners, and/or tradition.
Example:
"the surrounding communities' public wells, right? People around Mr. Tennant, the tens of thousands of people"
pancreatic
B1Of or pertaining to the pancreas
Example:
"in rats that PFOA did: liver, testicular, and pancreatic. - And the fact that its chain"
contaminate
B2To make something dangerous or toxic by introducing impurities or foreign matter.
Example:
"so they checked their own workers' blood, and they found that they too were contaminated with C8"
disseminated
B2To sow and scatter principles, ideas, opinions, etc, or concrete things, for growth and propagation, like seeds.
Example:
"where important public health information doesn't get widely disseminated for years. And whenever that happens,"
whatsoever
B1Whatever.
Example:
"- Has anyone ever come back with blood that has zero PFAS whatsoever? - I've been doing blood testing on PFAS since 2007,"
| Wort | CEFR | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| advantage | B1 | Any condition, circumstance, opportunity or means, particularly favorable to success, or to any desired end. |
| someone's | B1 | A B1-level word commonly used in this context. |
| naturally | B1 | In a natural manner. |
| occurring | B1 | To happen or take place. |
| population's | B2 | A B2-level word commonly used in this context. |
| communities | B2 | A group sharing a common understanding, and often the same language, law, manners, and/or tradition. |
| pancreatic | B1 | Of or pertaining to the pancreas |
| contaminate | B2 | To make something dangerous or toxic by introducing impurities or foreign matter. |
| disseminated | B2 | To sow and scatter principles, ideas, opinions, etc, or concrete things, for growth and propagation, like seeds. |
| whatsoever | B1 | Whatever. |
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