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| Terms for subject Environment (5949 entries) |
| cadmium (One of the toxic heavy metal which has caused deaths and permanent illnesses in a series of major pollution incidents around the world. Cadmium has no useful biological purpose. However, it has wide industrial applications. It has been used for decades in metal plating to prevent corrosion, in rechargeable batteries and as a pigment in certain plastics and paints. Special care is taken in the industrial smelting of ores and subsequent handling of cadmium, because occupational exposure is known to have caused heart, chest and kidney disorders. Environmental health problems have come from exposure to various sources of pollution, Cd) | kadmio | |
| cadmium contamination (The release and presence in the air, water and soil of cadmium, a toxic, metallic element, from sources such as the burning of coal and tobacco and improper disposal of cadmium-containing waste) | kadmio-poluzio | |
| caesium (A soft silvery-white and highly reactive metal belonging to the alkali group of metals. It is a radiation hazard, because it can occur in two radioactive forms. Caesium-134 is produced in nuclear reactors, not directly by fission, but by the reaction. It emits beta- and gamma-radiation and has a half-life of 2.06 years. Caesium-137 is a fission product of uranium and occurs in the fallout from nuclear weapons. It emits beta- and gamma-rays and has a half-life of 30 years. Caesium-137 was the principal product released into the atmosphere, and hence the food chain, from atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons and from the Windscale fire and Chernobyl nuclear accidents. After the Chernobyl accident, which spread a radiation cloud across Europe, the European Commission proposed new and more restrictive limits on levels of caesium in food and drinking water) | zesio | |
| calcium (A malleable silvery-white metallic element of the alkaline hearth group; the fifth most abundant element in the earth crust, occurring especially as forms of calcium carbonate. It is an essential constituent of bones and teeth and is used as a deoxidizer in steel) | kaltzio | |
| calcium content (Amount of calcium contained in a solution) | kaltzio-eduki | |
| calculation (The act, process or result of calculating) | kalkulu | |
| calculation method (No definition needed) | kalkulu-metodo | |
| calibration (To mark the scale of a measuring instrument so that readings can be made in appropriate units) | kalibratze | |
| calibration of measuring equipment (The determination or rectification of, according to an accepted standard, the graduation of any instrument giving quantitative measurements) | neurketa-ekipoen kalibratze | |
| camp (1. A place where tents, cabins, or other temporary structures are erected for the use of military troops, for training soldiers, etc. 2. Tents, cabins, etc., used as temporary lodgings by a group of travellers, holiday-makers, Scouts, Gypsies, etc.) | kanpamentu | |
| camping (Guarded area equipped with sanitary facilities where holiday-makers may pitch a tent and camp by paying a daily rate) | kanpin | |
| camping (Guarded area equipped with sanitary facilities where holiday-makers may pitch a tent and camp by paying a daily rate) | camping | |
| camping site (A piece of land where people on holiday can stay in tents, usually with toilets and places for washing) | kanpaleku | |
| canal (An artificial open waterway used for transportation, waterpower, or irrigation) | ubide | |
| canal (An artificial open waterway used for transportation, waterpower, or irrigation) | kanal | |
| canal lock (A chamber with gates on both ends connecting two sections of a canal or other waterway, to raise or lower the water level in each section) | esklusa | |
| cancer (Any malignant cellular tumour including carcinoma and sarcoma. It encompasses a group of neoplastic diseases in which there is a transformation of normal body cells into malignant ones, probably involving some change in the genetic material of the cells, possibly as a result of faulty repair of damage to the cell caused by carcinogenic agents or ionizing radiation) | minbizi | |
| cancer risk (The probability that exposure to some agent or substance will adversely transform cells to replicate and form a malignant tumor) | minbizi-arrisku | |
| canid (Carnivorous mammal in the superfamily Canoidea, including dogs and their allies) | kanido | |
| canyon (A long deep, relatively narrow steep-sided valley confined between lofty and precipitous walls in a plateau or mountainous area, often with a stream at the bottom; similar to, but largest than, a gorge. It is characteristic of an arid or semiarid area (such as western U.S) where stream downcutting greatly exceeds weathering) | arroila |