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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 from rainfall or ...
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 wastewaters containing ...
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 temperature over a specific ...
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 disruption of cellular ...
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 substituted with active.
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 enforce regulations to ...
activated sludge
Environment; Pollution
A process for treating sewage and industrial wastewaters using air and a biological floc composed of bacteria and protozoa.