Environment

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Issues related to the circumstances or condition of the earth's natural surroundings.

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alkalinity

Environment; Pollution

"It is the quantitative capacity of an aqueous solution to neutralize an acid. Measuring alkalinity is important in determining a stream's ability to neutralize acidic pollution ...

air stripping tower

Environment; Pollution

It is the transferring of volatile components of a liquid into an air stream. It is a environmental engineering technology used for the purification of groundwaters and ...

biochemical oxygen demand (BOD)

Environment; Pollution

It is the amount of dissolved oxygen needed by aerobic biological organisms in a body of water to break down organic material present in a given water sample at certain ...

carcinogen

Environment; Pollution

A carcinogen is any substance, radionuclide, or radiation that is an agent directly involved in causing cancer. This may be due to the ability to damage the genome or to the ...

activatedd carbon

Environment; Pollution

It is a form of carbon processed to have small, low-volume pores that increase the surface area available for adsorption or chemical reactions.[1] Activated is sometimes ...

Clean Air Act

Environment; Pollution

The Clean Air Act is a United States federal law designed to control air pollution on a national level. It requires the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to develop and ...