Environmental medium

Environmental Medium
A major environmental category that surrounds or contacts humans, animals, plants, and other organisms (e.g., surface water, ground water, soil or air) and through which chemicals or pollutants move.

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Definition (english only)
Major compartments of the environment, e.g. air, water and soil.

Any undesirable solid, liquid or gaseous matter in a solid, liquid or gaseous environmental medium.

Absolute lethal concentration (LC100)-Lowest concentration of a substance in an environmental medium which kills 100% of test organisms or species under defined conditions. This value is dependent on the number of organisms used in its assessment.

A combined measure of contaminant concentrations in a given environmental medium.
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Biological Medium: One of the major component of an organism; e.g. blood, fatty tissue, lymph nodes or breath, in which chemicals can be stored or transformed. (See: ambient medium, environmental medium.) ...

Contaminant: An undesirable substance (physical, chemical, biological, or radiological) not normally present, or an unusually high concentration of a naturally occurring substance, in water, soil, or other environmental medium.

Environmental Medium
Environmental Monitoring for Public Access and Community Tracking
Environmental Response Team
Environmental Site Assessment
Environmental Sustainability
Environmental Tobacco Smoke
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See also: Environment, Water, Environmental, Air, Concentration