The objective of the “Glossary of terms used in ecotoxicology” is to give clear definitions for those who contribute to studies relevant to ecotoxicology but are not themselves ecotoxicologists. This objective applies especially to chemists who need to understand the ecotoxicological literature without recourse to a multiplicity of dictionaries. The glossary includes terms related to chemical speciation in the environment, sampling, monitoring, and environmental analysis, as well as to adverse ecological effects of chemicals, ecological biomarkers, and the environmental distribution of chemicals. The dictionary consists of about 1139 terms. The authors hope that among the groups who will find this glossary helpful, in addition to chemists, are pharmacologists, toxicologists, ecotoxicologists, risk assessors, regulators, medical practitioners, and regulatory authorities. In particular, the glossary should facilitate the use of chemistry in relation to environmental risk assessment.

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Shama, Gilbert, Ahlfield, Birte · Loughborough University Institutional Repository (Loughborough University) · 2012

This book chapter was accepted for publication in Plasma Medicine - Applications of Low-temperature Gas Plasmas in Medicine and Biology [Cambridge University Press © M. Laroussi, M. Kong, G. Morfill and W. Stolz] and the publisher's website is at: http://www.cambridge.org

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Manuela Ciangola, Francesco Masiello · IRIS Research product catalog (Sapienza University of Rome) · 2024

The word contamination, starting from its etymon, unfolds certain characters that weave a close interweaving with architecture. Beginning with the Latin derivation contaminatio -onis, the prefix con implies the act of contaminating, soiling, dishonouring an organism through union with another entity that alters its integrity to generate a new form without erasing the previous one. The root of tag (tangere) reinforces this aspect: contact requires the presence of two entities, heterogeneous to each other, whose relationship produces mixing and hybridisation, transforming their nature. The word makes it possible to address on several levels the factual contamination that manifests itself in the adaptive recovery by taking, for each aspect, an architectural duet between a work of the classical and one of the contemporary. The mixing of antinomies, between the sacred and the profane, marks the multiple stratification of the urban fabric; the contamination between different types of construction that sully the purity of unitary systems to reach an architectural hybridity; the attention of the contaminative gesture in mixing heterogeneities become three syntactic reading modes for an adaptive reuse.

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National Cancer Institute · Definitions · 2020

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Vornholt, John · Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information (Royal Gardens Kew) · 1991

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ENERGÉTICA - Energía para el desarrollo · UNM’s Digital Repository (University of New Mexico) · 2006

This short video clip is in Spanish. It provides brief visuals and an explanation about the 1997 Soufrière Hills volcano eruption and all of the subsequent pollutants released on the island of Monserrat.

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A. R. Hileman · 2018

This chapter deals with a summary of application data concerning ceramic insulators after which the nonceramic insulator is considered. The terms contamination and pollution, like the terms leakage and creepage, are used as synonyms. For transmission or distribution lines, contamination dictates the type of insulator and the length of the insulator string. In some contamination areas, the insulator length may exceed that required by lightning or switching surges, and therefore the final design of the line is based on contamination. In some parts of the USA and in some countries, contamination is the dominant design criterion, dictating the design of the line or station insulation. However, fortunately, for most of the world, contamination is not present to the degree that the insulation requirements overshadow the requirements of switching and/or lightning. One method of determining the insulation required that obviates, to a degree, the measurement of contamination is the construction of test stations along the proposed right-of-way.

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