- Industry: NGO
- Number of terms: 31364
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The United Nations Organization (UNO), or simply United Nations (UN), is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and the achieving of world peace.
Shallow body of water that contains much humus and/or organic matter. The highly acidic water impairs fish life.
Industry:Environment
Soil whose surface is neither acidic nor alkaline in reaction. For strict neutrality, the pH value should be 7.0.
Industry:Environment
Solid residue consisting mainly of carbon obtained by the destructive distillation of wood in the absence of air.
Industry:Environment
Technique for promoting rainfall by the introduction of sea salt, dry ice, zinc or silver iodine into the clouds.
Industry:Environment
Changes in the prevalence or incidence of a given effect associated with changes in the level of a possible cause.
Industry:Environment
Destruction of parasites, insects, vermin or rodents or hindering of their growth by physical or mechanical means.
Industry:Environment
Fish that spend their adult life in the sea but swim upriver to freshwater spawning grounds in order to reproduce.
Industry:Environment
From the French patrimoine naturel, totality of natural assets, including those of a historical or cultural value.
Industry:Environment
Mechanical device for collecting in sedimentation tanks, dirt, froth and impurities from the surface of the water.
Industry:Environment
Term referring to the maximum number of permissible Escherichia coli or other coliform bacteria in drinking water.
Industry:Environment
