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| Terms for subject Environment (15072 entries) |
| kackerlackor | cockroach (The most primitive of the living winged insects. It is thought they have been unchanged for more than 300 million years, and are among the oldest fossil insects. Cockroaches are usually found in tropical climates, but a few species, out of the total 3.500 known species, have become pests. They are common household pests in many countries, imported by ship and carried home in grocery bags. Cockroaches eat plant and animal products, including food, paper, clothing and soiled hospital waste, fouling everything they touch with their droppings and unpleasant odour, to which many people are allergic. They are a major health hazard and carry harmful bacteria, protozoan parasites and faunal pathogens, including those that cause typhoid, leprosy and salmonella. Conventional insecticides make little or no impact on the cockroaches population) | |
| kackerlackor | cockroach | |
| kackerlackor | cockroaches | |
| kadmium | 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) | |
| kådplanta | resinous plant (Plants yielding or producing resin) | |
| kådplanta | resinous plant | |
| kafferseglare | white-rumped swift | |
| kagu | kagu | |
| kaguer | kagu | |
| kaja | jackdaw | |
| kakapo | kakapo | |
| kakapo | owl parrot | |
| kaktusväxter | cactus family | |
| kalanderlärka | calandra lark | |
| kalcitmättnadsindex | calcite saturation indes | |
| kalcitmättnadsindex | calcium saturation index | |
| kalcium | 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) | |
| kalciumhalt | calcium content (Amount of calcium contained in a solution) | |
| kalciumhalt | calcium content | |
| kalhuggning | deforestation (The removal of forest and undergrowth to increase the surface of arable land or to use the timber for construction or industrial purposes. Forest and its undergrowth possess a very high water-retaining capacity, inhibiting runoff of rainwater) |