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Stabilization Ponds: (See: lagoon.) Stable Air: A motionless mass of air that holds, instead of dispersing, pollutants. Stack: A chimney, smokestack, or vertical pipe that discharges used air.
stabilization ponds An excavated, uniformly shaped, and lined basin, about ten feet in average depth, providing weeks of detention time for a raw sewage influent that is biologically oxidized by a dilute biomass of bacteria and algae.
See also: Climate, Acid, Emissions, Organic compound, Estuaries
 
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