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Issues related to the circumstances or condition of the earth's natural surroundings.
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trickling filter
Environment; Pollution
"A trickling filter is a type of water pollution treatment system. It consists of a fixed bed of rocks, lava, coke, gravel, slag, polyurethane foam, sphagnum peat moss, ...
mesophilic
Environment; Pollution
"A mesophile is an organism that grows best in moderate temperature, neither too hot nor too cold, typically between 20 and 45 °C (68 and 113 °F).[1] The term is ...
protozoa
Environment; Pollution
"In some biological taxonomy schemes, Protozoa are a diverse group of mostly motile unicellular eukaryotic organisms, but the term is no longer used in modern taxonomy."
mass balance
Environment; Pollution
"A mass balance, also called a material balance, is an application of conservation of mass to the analysis of physical systems. By accounting for material entering and ...
pathogen
Environment; Pollution
"The term is used to describe an infectious agent (colloquially known as a germ) — a microorganism, in the widest sense such as a virus, bacterium, prion, fungus or ...
methanol
Environment; Pollution
"A toxic, colorless, volatile flammable liquid alcohol, originally made by distillation from wood and now chiefly by oxidizing methane."
Monod equation
Environment; Pollution
The Monod equation is a mathematical model for the growth of microorganisms. It is named for Jacques Monod who proposed using an equation of this form to relate microbial growth ...
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