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Notable and Infamous Places Aral Sea The site of what has been called the greatest environmental disaster of all time. The Aral Sea has been drying up.

The Table Mountain ghost frog (also known as the thumbed ghost frog), Heleophryne rosei.

Reportable Quantity (RQ) Quantity of a hazardous substance that triggers reports under CERCLA.

Acceptable Daily Intake (ADI): Estimate of the largest amount of chemical to which a person can be exposed on a daily basis that is not anticipated to result in adverse effects (usually expressed in mg/kg/day). Same as RfD.

Table 2. Coarse fragments Shape and kind of fragments Up to 7.5 cm (3 inches) 7.

TABLE OF CONTENTS COVER STORY CONNECTING THE DOTS - The Emerging Science of Conservation Medicine Links Human and Animal Health with the Environment. Animal diseases are breaking the species barrier and crossing over to humans at an alarming rate.

Table Defined In the legislative sense, an action taken to halt debate on a bill. This definition is in context to Environment. See more contextual defintions for Table.

table A set of data arranged in rows and columns. taiga Flat, marshy, subartic forests, usually of spruce, firs, or pine trees; ...

table - in the legislative sense, an action taken to halt debate on a bill. tap water - drinking water monitored (and often filtered) for protection against contamination and available for public consumption from sources within the home.

Table 1. Minnesota Lake Water Quality Data Base Summary (1998). Distribution of Carlson TSI values and lake basin morphometry measurements by ecoregion (N = number of lakes). Percentiles ...

table which may hold water by capillarity (a property of surface tension that draws water upwards) in the smaller void spaces.

stable air : A motionless mass of air that holds instead of dispersing pollutants. stack effect : Air, as in a chimney, that moves upward because it is warmer than the ambient atmosphere.

Stable Air: A mass of air that is not moving normally, so that it holds rather than disperses pollutants. Stack: A chimney or smokestack; a vertical pipe that discharges used air.

Potable water: Suitable for human consumption as drinking water. Potentiometric Surface: An imaginary surface formed by measuring the level to which water will rise in wells of a particular aquifer.

Potable water: Potable water is considered safe for human consumption and is often referred to as drinking water.

Potable water. Suitable and safe for drinking. ppb. Parts per billion. Precipitation: Water from the atmosphere that falls to the ground as a liquid (rain) or a solid (snow, sleet, hail).

Potable water: Water of a quality suitable for drinking. Potentiometric surface: The potential level to which water will rise above the water level in an aquifer in a well that penetrates a confined aquifer; ...

Potable water Water that is safe for drinking and cooking. Potentiation The ability of one chemical to increase the effect of another chemical.

Potable: suitable for drinking. Primary Drinking Water Standards: enforceable EPA standards which establish MCLs for drinking water contaminants after considering health effects and the feasibility and cost of analysis and treatment of regulated ...

Potable Water that is toxicologically and pathologically safe and aesthetically fit to drink. ppb ...

Potable Water: Water that is safe for drinking and cooking. Potential Dose: The amount of a compound contained in material swallowed, breathed, or applied to the skin.

potable water. Water that is safe and satisfactory for drinking and cooking.

Wettable Powder: Dry formulation that must be mixed with water or other liquid before it is applied. Wheeling: The transmission of electricity owned by one entity through the facilities owned by another (usually a utility).

Portable water purification Portable drinking water systems or chemical additives are available for hiking, camping, and travel in remote areas.

Unstable angina: Angina pectoris characterized by sudden changes (as an increase in the severity or length of anginal attacks or a decrease in the exertion required to precipitate an attack) especially when symptoms were previously stable.

Ignitable: Capable of burning or causing a fire. Illegal or illicit discharge: Any disposal into the storm drainage system for which a person or business does not have a permit.

Ignitable: Capable of burning or causing a fire. IM240: A high-tech, transient dynamometer automobile emissions test that takes up to 240 seconds.

Habitable room: a room or enclosed floor space used or intended to be used for living, sleeping, cooking or eating purposes, excluding bathrooms, laundries, furnace rooms, pantries, ...

Ignitable 1) A liquid that has a flash point less than 140°F. 2) Capable of burning or causing a fire. Immediately Dangerous to Life and Health (IDLH) ...

Acceptable Daily Intake (ADI): The highest daily amount of a substance that may be consumed over a lifetime without adverse effects.

Metastable State - A object that returns to its original position after force is applied. [Vibrational Spectroscopy; v43; 53-63; 2007.] ...

Detectable Leak Rate: The smallest leak (from a storage tank), expressed in terms of gallons- or liters-per-hour, that a test can reliably discern with a certain probability of detection or false alarm ...

Water Table: Upper surface of a zone of saturation, where that surface is not formed by a confining unit; water pressure in the porous medium is equal to atmospheric pressure (the phreatic surface).

An unstable isotope of an element that eventually will undergo radioactive decay (i.e., disintegration).

water table: the upper boundary of an unconfined aquifer well: a hole that is drilled into the ground to a depth below the water table ...

Water Table:  The upper surface of the zone of saturation; the upper surface of the groundwater.

Water Table: The upper surface of the groundwater; the level below which the soil is saturated with water. Its depth is influenced by rainfall and by human development (wells, drainage ditches, loss of wetlands, etc.).

Water Table. (1) The free surface of the groundwater. (2) That surface subject to atmospheric pressure under the ground, generally rising and falling with the season or from other conditions such as water withdrawal.

water table - The top of the zone of saturation. watershed - The land area that drains into a stream. well - A pit, hole, or shaft sunk into the earth to tap an underground source of water.

Air/Oil Table The surface between the vadose zone and ambient oil; the pressure of oil in the porous medium is equal to atmospheric pressure. Airborne Particulates ...

An unacceptable "risk assessment" is when government decides for you how much of your health risk they are willing to accept.

A hazy film detectable on the surface of a coin. High Points Areas of highest relief on a coin's surface. The high points are the most difficult areas to obtain a sharp strike, but the first to wear or receive abrasions.

Radioisotope An unstable or radioactive isotope (form) of an element that can change into another element by giving off radiation. Radionuclide Any radioactive isotope (form) of any element.

It may include forestlands that support an understory or periodic cover of herbaceous or shrubby plants suitable for grazing without impairing other forest values.

The porous material just above the water table which may hold water by capillarity (a property of surface tension that draws water upwards) in the smaller void spaces. capital costs.

However, many people use the word safe to mean something that has a very low risk or one that is acceptable to them.

Co-Product A marketable by-product from a process that can technically not be avoided.

saturated zone The area below the water table where all open spaces are filled with water. Compare unsaturated zone.

paludification The expansion of a bog caused by the gradual rising of the water table as accumulation of peat impedes water drainage.

injuries and illnesses to employees and contractors; incidents like fires, explosions, accidental releases to the environment, and transportation incidents; global waste and emissions; and use of depletable raw materials and energy.

Hazardous Material -- Specific substances listed by EPA, and any other substance that is corrosive, ignitable, reactive or toxic.

OZONE (STRATOSPHERIC) Ozone is an unstable form of oxygen (the molecule contains three oxygen atoms) and is found in the upper atmosphere.

The grade at which most reputable dealers and auction houses would offer an uncertified coin. Also the standard employed by the N.C.I. (Numismatic Certification Institute) grading service.

Water-Water covers 71 percent of the Earth's surface, but relatively little is suitable for consumption. In many parts of the world, drinkable water is in very short supply.

Even a relatively small rise in sea level would make some densely settled coastal plains uninhabitable and create a significant refugee problem.

Nuclear War - All-out nuclear war could make the planet's ecosystem uninhabitable for millennia. The threat of nuclear terrorism is a subset of this problem and, while clearly a serious problem, it's likely to have an effect locally, not globally.

Biodiesel is an alternative fuel based on vegetable oils or animal fats, even those recycled after restaurants have used them for cooking.

The most unpredictable weather event, tornadoes are created during powerful thunderstorms. As a column of warm air rises, air rushes in at ground level and begins to spin. If the storm gathers energy a twisting, spinning funnel develops.

A single geographic area may have acceptable levels of one criteria air pollutant but unacceptable levels of one or more other criteria air pollutants; thus, an area can be both attainment and non-attainment at the same time.

Breathing air inside a habitable structure, often highly polluted because of lack of exchange with fresh oxygen from outdoors.

See also: Environment, Water, Environmental, Air, Waste