Examples of scavenger

• Vultures are scavengers.

• The fish die, their corpses pile up and rot, leaching vital nutrients back into the water and, through maggots and scavengers, onto the land.

• Homeless children subsist as scavengers in garbage dumps.

• Going after scavengers is far from one of the Los Angeles Police Department's top priorities.

• Probably implanted oxygen ions act as scavengers of electrons or of atomic and molecular hydrogen, promoting the formation of water molecular fragments.

• Free radical scavengers ameliorate the 2-cell block in mouse embryo culture.

• Photocatalytic oxidation of organic substrates requires an electron acceptor, light of the proper wavelength, and low concentrations of catalyst fouling agents or interfering radical scavengers.

• A way of reducing these administrative costs is to target the subsidy to organized scavengers groups.