Lead Poisoning
One of the foremost environmental health threats to children in the US. Based on EPA studies, almost half a million children have been tested to have significant amounts of lead in their blood.
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Lead (Pb): A heavy metal that is hazardous to health if breathed or swallowed. Its use in gasoline, paints, and plumbing compounds has been sharply restricted or eliminated by federal laws and regulations.
Lead exposure was present in diverse forms such as food, drinking water, air, soil dust and consumer products.
lead poisoning - damaging the body (specifically the brain) by absorbing lead through the skin or by swallowing.
least-cost planning - a process for satisfying consumers' demands for energy services at the lowest societal cost.
lead colic (painters’ colic)
Chronic intestinal pains and constipation caused by lead poisoning.
lesion
Area of pathologically altered tissue.
Injury or wound.
Infected patch of skin.
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Lead Service Line
A service line made of lead that connects the water to the building inlet and any lead fitting connected to it.
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Lead-based paint: any paint or coating with lead content equal to or greater than 1 milligram per square centimeter, or 0.5% by weight.
Multiple dwelling: any dwelling containing more than two dwelling units.
Lead - harmful to the environment used in a lot of paints. It's also toxic to humans.
Light pollution - environmental pollution consisting of the excess of harmful or annoying light.
Lead
A heavy metal present in small amounts everywhere in the human environment.
Lead: A gray-white metal that is soft, malleable, ductile, and resistant to corrosion. Sources of lead resulting in concentrations in the air include industrial sources and crustal weathering of soils followed by fugitive dust emissions.
Lead-free Petrol is vehicle fuel that does not contain tetraethyl lead a compound added to stop "knocking" or "pinking".
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Definition (english only)
A heavy toxic bluish-white metallic element that is highly malleable; occurs principally as galena and is used in alloys, accumulators, cable sheaths, paints, and as a radiation shield.
channel lead An elongated opening in the ice cover caused by a water current.
channel routing The process of determining progressively the timing and shape of the flood wave at successive points along a river.
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LADD
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LD Lead.
LDPE See: Low density polyethylene.
LEACHING Process by which soluble materials are dissolved and carried through the soil by a percolating liquid.
Climate change will lead to more hot days and more heat waves. As a result, people will need to use more air conditioning to stay cool. As people use more air conditioning, electricity shortages and blackouts could increase.
A blood test for lead is an example of biological monitoring. Body burden The total amount of a chemical in the body. Some chemicals build up in the body because they are stored in body organs like fat or bone or are eliminated very slowly.
Until recently, most solder contained 50 percent lead. The use of lead solder containing more than 0.2% lead is now prohibited for pipes carrying potable water.
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Pb- Lead
PBA- Preliminary Benefit Analysis (BEAD)
PCA- Principle Component Analysis
PCB- Polychlorinated Biphenyl
PCE- Perchloroethylene
PCM- Phase Contrast Microscopy
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Monoclimax theory The concept that all successional sequences lead to a single characteristic climax in a given region. Monocotyledons One of the two main groups of flowering plants (see Angiosperms).
Environmental Management Those aspects of an overall management function (including planning) that determine and lead to implementation of an environmental policy. See also environmental management system. ...
For example, children who breathe in large quantities of car exhaust fumes may accumulate lead in their blood. The lead comes from the exhaust fumes emitted by cars powered by petrol that contains lead.
He successfully lead the concern for greater care with genetic experimentation. His interests broadened to protection of the environment, protection of endangered species and global warming. He is Canada’s best known most respected scientist.
These aerosol particles can lead to the formation of cloud condensation nuclei, water droplet formation, and hence clouds and storm formation.
Support projects that will lead to an increased use of reclaimed wastewater for irrigation and other uses.
Promote water conservation in community newsletters and on bulletin boards.
For example, lead can accumulate in surface soil near a road due to automobile exhaust. As you move away from the road, the amount of lead in the surface soil decreases.
Other Nonferrous Metals: Recyclable nonferrous metals such as lead, copper, and zinc from appliances, consumer electronics, and nonpackaging aluminum products.
Although biomarkers can indicate events or changes that are not harmful, toxicologists use biomarkers chiefly to determine if exposure has occurred and whether exposure may lead to toxic effects.
solder A metallic compound used to seal the joints between pipes. Until recently, solder contained 50% lead. The use of lead solder containing more than 20 percent lead is now prohibited for pipes carrying potable water.
downsizing: a deliberate lifestyle choice to lead a simpler life with less money.
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ecology: correctly, the study of the interaction between living organisms and their environments. Often used simply to mean the environment.
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The effect of a change in the weather on plant growth may lead to some countries not having enough food. Brazil, parts of Africa, south-east Asia and China will be affected the most and many people could suffer from hunger.
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A thick-walled container (usually lead) used to transport radioactive material. Also called a coffin.
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Time and location of observation might lead to a different appreciation of smell at the same concentration. The Hedonic scale varies between 4 and -4. The latter being a very unpleasant sensational smell ...
Time may also lead to speciation. Temporal separation results in populations delineated by differences in the timing of reproductive viability. may result in increased variation between populations and, ultimately speciation.
Cask: A thick-walled container (usually lead) used to transport radioactive material. Also called a coffin.
Adverse health effect
A change in body function or cell structure that might lead to disease or health problems
Aerobic
Requiring oxygen [compare with anaerobic].
There is some speculation that global warming could, via a shutdown or slowdown of the thermohaline circulation, trigger localised cooling in the North Atlantic and lead to cooling, or lesser warming, in that region.
Heavy Metals: those metals (elements with high density, malleability, and electrical and thermal conductivity) that have high specific gravity and high atomic mass, such as lead, cadmium, zinc, copper, silver, and mercury.
The water that comes out when a tap is first opened. It is likely that is has the highest level of lead contamination from weathering of pipelines.
Fission
Reproduction of microrganisms by means of cell division.
It can damage trees and lead to acid rain, which can harm lakes and streams and also corrode exposed materials. In the presence of sunlight and volatile organic compounds, NO2 can contribute to the formation of ground-level ozone, or smog.
It is also an industrial byproduct of the manufacturing of zinc, copper and lead. Its mobility depends on the pH and redox state of the local environment.
First draw: The water that comes out when a tap is first opened. It is likely that is has the highest level of lead contamination from weathering of pipelines.
Time Critical Removals: Including emergencies lasting longer than 30 calendar days, those releases requiring initiation of on-site activity within six months of the lead agency's determination, based on the site evaluation, ...
EPA has identified and set standards to protect human health and welfare for six pollutants: ozone, carbon monoxide, total suspended particulates, sulfur dioxide, lead, and nitrogen oxide.
Gamma Rays: Very penetrating and are best stopped or shielded by dense materials, such as lead or uranium. Gamma rays are similar to x rays.
An appropriate EMS is worthwhile for all organisations in a world where a small accidental spillage of oil or detergent can lead to costs of many thousands of pounds.
First Draw
The water that comes out when a faucet in the kitchen or bathroom is first opened, which is likely to have the highest level of lead contamination from old plumbing solder and pipes. ...
global warming: Global warming is a term used to describe an increase in the earth's temperature from, in part, humans releasing more carbon dioxide into the air. Scientists believe that will lead to climate change with many negative ...
Heavy metals
certain metals, used industrially and harmful to living organisms, for which discharge and emission standards are set; including cadmium, chromium, copper, lead, mercury, nickel, zinc ...
Specific climatic conditions may result in increased or decreased availability of the fish. This would lead to increased (or decreased) catchability and, thus, increased (or decreased) fishing mortality rate with the same fishing effort.
cloud feedback The coupling between cloudiness and surface air temperature in which a change in surface temperature could lead to a change in clouds, which could then amplify or diminish the initial temperature perturbation.
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