| badevann |
bathing water (All waters, inland or coastal, except those intended for therapeutic purposes or used in swimming pools, an area either in which bathing is explicitly authorised or in which bathing is not prohibited and is traditionally practised by a large number of bathers. Water in such areas must meet specified quality standards relating to chemical, microbiological and physical parameters) |
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| bakgrunnsnivå |
background level (Term used in a variety of situations, always as the constant or natural amount of a given substance, radiation, noise, etc.) |
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| bakgrunnsstråling |
background radiation (Radiation resulting from natural sources, as opposed to man-made sources, and to which people are exposed in everyday, normal life; for example from rocks and soil) |
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| bakgrunnsstøy |
background noise (Noise coming from source other than the noise source being monitored) |
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| bakkenært ozon |
tropospheric ozone (Tropospheric ozone is a secondary pollutant formed from emissions of nitrogen oxides, non-methane volatile organic compounds and carbon monoxide. Ozone scars lung tissue, makes eyes sting and throats itch. It has been implicated as a contributor to forest dieback, damage to agricultural crops, etc.) |
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| bakterie |
bacterium (Group of single-cell micro-organisms, the smallest of the living organisms. Some are vital to sustain life, while others are responsible for causing highly dangerous human diseases, such as anthrax, tetanus and tuberculosis. Bacteria are found everywhere, in the soil, water and air) |
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| bakteriedrepende middel |
bactericide (An agent that destroys bacteria) |
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| bakteriefilter |
bacterial bed (A device that removes some suspended solids from sewage. Air and bacteria decompose additional wastes filtering through the sand so that cleaner water drains from the bed) |
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| bakteriologi |
bacteriology (The science and study of bacteria) |
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| bakteriologisk forurensning |
bacteriological pollution (Contamination of water, soil and air with pathogen bacteria) |
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| bankeforbygning |
bank protection (Engineering work which aims at the protection of banks of a river, or slopes of embankments along it, from erosion by the current of flow, from floods, etc.) |
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| bankvirksomhet |
banking (Transactional business between any bank, an institution for safeguarding, exchanging, receiving and lending money, and that bank's clients or customers) |
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| barium |
barium (A soft silvery-white metallic element of the alkaline earth group. It is used in bearing alloys and compounds are used as pigments) |
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| barn |
child (A person below the age of puberty) |
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| barnebegrensning |
birth control (Limitation of the number of children born by preventing or reducing the frequency of impregnation) |
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| barnedødelighet |
infant mortality (The rate of deaths occurring in the first year of life for a given population) |
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| barskog |
coniferous forest (A forest type characterized by cone-bearing, needle-leaved trees. They are generally, but not necessarily, evergreen and relatively shallow-rooted. Since they grow more rapidly than most broad-leaved trees, conifers are extensively planted as a source of softwood timber and pulp. They are tolerant of wide-ranging climatic conditions, of many different types of soil and of considerable differences in terrain. Thus, they are found from the polar latitudes to the tropics, on most types of soils (especially, thin acid soils) and from mountain summits to coastal environments) |
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| bartre |
coniferous tree |
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| bartre |
conifer (An order of conebearing plants which includes nearly all the present day Gymnospermae. Most are tall evergreen trees with needle-like (e.g., pines), linear (e.g. firs) or scale-like (e.g., cedars) leaves. They are characteristic of temperate zones and the main forest trees of colder regions. They provide timber, resins, tars, turpentine and pulp for paper) |
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| baser |
base (Any chemical species, ionic or molecular, capable of accepting or receiving a proton (hydrogen ion) from another substance; the other substance acts as an acid in giving of the proton; the other ion is a base; chemical) |
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