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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.
Result of environmental impacts on human health and welfare. The term is also used synonymously with environmental impact.
Industry:Environment
Wearing or grinding down of a substance by friction. It is a contributory factor in air pollution, for example, from dust.
Industry:Environment
Weight of dust suspended in a unit volume of air. Expressed in grams per cubic metre at standard temperature and pressure.
Industry:Environment
Measure of environmental quality indicating the amount of pollutants found per unit volume in different environmental media.
Industry:Environment
Period of no development and reduced metabolism in the life cycle of organisms due to unfavourable environmental conditions.
Industry:Environment
Very small particles that exist in high concentrations in the atmosphere and are generally produced by combustion processes.
Industry:Environment
Weight of a pollutant per unit volume in the region of the air between the ground and a height of about two metres above it.
Industry:Environment
Compounds used as replacements for chloro-fluorocarbons (CFCs) in refrigeration because they are less active ozone depleters.
Industry:Environment
Flow of a liquid through an unsaturated porous medium. One example is the flow of water in soil under the action of gravity.
Industry:Environment
Also called incineration, thermal oxidation is the process by which airborne organic molecules are converted to CO2 and H2O.
Industry:Environment
