sink
In environmental chemistry, an area or part of the environment in which, or a process by which, one or more pollutants is removed from the medium in which it is dispersed.
Sink: Place in the environment where a compound or material collects.
Sinking: Controlling oil spills by using an agent to trap the oil and sink it to the bottom of the body of water where the agent and the oil are biodegraded.
Sink - This is a natural removal process for pollutants in the troposphere such as dissolution and removal via rain. [Environmental Chemistry; Baird, Colin; pp.54; 1995; W.H. Freeman and Company; New York.
sink = the creation of a storage unit in geological or oceanic formations; may be used for carbon capture and storage, etc.
sink = See carbon sink.
SF6 = sulphur hexafluoride ...
Sink is a reservoir that takes up a pollutant from another part of its cycle. Soil and trees act as natural "sinks" for carbon.
sink. A place in the environment where a compound or material collects. See reservoir.
slake. To mix with water with a true chemical combination (hydrolysis) taking place, such as in the slaking of lime.
Rinse sink: Apparatus used to remove debris and contaminants from products and equipment.
Rinsewater: Water used to remove debris and contaminants from products and equipment.
Carbon sink - carbon dioxide is naturally absorbed by things such as oceans, forests and peat bogs. These are called carbon sinks.
Carbon tax - a charge on fossil fuels based on their carbon content. Find out more at the Carbon Tax Center.
Carbon Sink. An area that stores and traps carbon dioxide. Trees are excellent carbon sinks because they absorb the carbon dioxide from the air and replenish the air with oxygen.
carbon sink: any mechanism that removes greenhouse gases or aerosols from the atmosphere. Oceans, trees and soil are all carbon sinks.
Sink: A process or mechanism by which water or chemicals are removed from the subsurface system. A Karst Channel is sometimes a sink for groundwater flow. Biodegradation is a sink for a biodegradable chemical.
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Forests and other ecosystems that absorb carbon, thereby removing it from the atmosphere and offsetting CO2 emissions.
Carbon sink Both natural and man-made. Accumulates carbon-containing products. Examples include the oceans, plants and landfills. Carbon Tax A tax on emissions of coal, oil and natural gas.
Storage or CCS Carbon Credit Carbon Cycle Carbon Dioxide Carbon Emissions Carbon Footprint Carbon Leakage Carbon Monoxide Carbon Neutral Carbon Offsets Carbon Project Carbon Sequestration Carbon Sink ...
An examination of the carbon budget of a pool or reservoir can provide information about whether the pool or reservoir is functioning as a source or sink for CO2.
"EPA pursued a kitchen sink strategy by throwing a variety of arguments at the Court about why it could simply choose to ignore the law and come up with its own political criteria for deciding what is a pollutant and whether or not to regulate it, ...
demersal Applied to eggs which are heavy and sink to the bottom of a stream or other body of water.
demineralization A treatment process which removes dissolved minerals (salts) from water.
de minimus Not enough to be considered.
Kitchen: any room used for the storage and preparation of foods and containing the following equipment: sink or other device for dishwashing, stove or other device for cooking, refrigerator or other device for cold storage of food, ...
Grey Water: wastewater other than sewage, such as sink or washing machine drainage.
Ground Water: water in the saturated zone (below the water table).
Half-life: time required for one-half of a specified substance to decompose.
Controlling oil spills by using an agent to trap the oil and sink it to the bottom of the body of water where the agent and the oil are biodegraded.
Source: Terms of the Environment
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GRAYWATER: Water that has been used for showering, clothes washing, and faucet uses. Kitchen sink and toilet water are excluded.
GROUNDWATER: Water found below the surface of the Earth.
To clarify water by causing impurities or solid material to sink to the bottom of the container.
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Adding simulation of the ability of the environment to sink carbon dioxide suggested that rising fossil fuel emissions would decrease absorption from the atmosphere, amplifying climate warming beyond previous predictions, although "Globally, ...
TO GRIND OR NOT TO GRIND?
THAT IS THE ENVIRONMENTAL QUESTION . . .
Avoid Garbage Disposal Problems by Limiting the Waste Going Down the Sink
TOILET PAPER AND ANCIENT FORESTS (Article #126) ...
The ocean also acts as a giant bio-geological 'sink', or exchange, for minerals and elements which cycle through the global system.
It extracts heat from one medium at a lower (the heat source) temperature and transfers it to another at a higher temperature (the heat sink), thereby cooling the first and warming the second. (See: geothermal, water source heat pump.) ...
Heat Pump- An electric device with both heating and cooling capabilities. It extracts heat from one medium at a lower (the heat source) temperature and transfers it to another at a higher temperature (the heat sink), ...
A cubic meter is the space inside of a box that is one meter wide, one meter high, and one meter deep. A softball bat is about a meter long (39 inches, or just over a yard). The cabinet under a kitchen sink has about one cubic meter of volume.
dolina a depression owed to dissolution and collapse in limestone substrata; a sink or swallow hole
DOM dissolved organic material not retained by membrane filters with pore size 0.45 micrometers
dorsal located on or near the back ...
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