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The United Nations Organization (UNO), or simply United Nations (UN), is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and the achieving of world peace.
Process by which a compound is reduced in concentration over time, through adsorption, degradation, dilution or some other transformation.
Industry:Environment
Total amount of precipitation (rain or snow) received from the atmosphere divided by the amount of water evaporated during a given period.
Industry:Environment
Finely divided solids or liquids that may be dispersed through the air from combustion processes, industrial activities or natural sources.
Industry:Environment
Graph showing the variation over time of some hydrologic data such as stage in the hydrologic cycle, discharge, velocity and sediment load.
Industry:Environment
Heavy metal whose compounds are highly poisonous to health. Its use in gasoline, paints and plumbing compounds has been generally reduced.
Industry:Environment
Municipal or industrial facility that emits pollutants through a defined conveyance or system. It constitutes a point source of pollution.
Industry:Environment
Biological classification of lakes based on the amount of available food and trophic levels. It categorizes lakes according to three types.
Industry:Environment
Fine liquid or solid particles, such as dust, smoke, mist, fumes or smog, found in air or emissions. See also suspended particulate matter.
Industry:Environment
Measurement of sound approximating the sensitivity of the human ear, used to record the intensity or annoyance of sounds. See also decibel.
Industry:Environment
Removal of chlorine from a substance by chemically replacing it with hydrogen or hydroxide ions in order to detoxify the substance involved.
Industry:Environment
