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Terms for subject Environment (5582 entries)
falta fault (A fracture or a zone of fractures along which there has been displacement of the sides relative to one another parallel to the fracture)
fam famine (A severe shortage of food, as through crop failure or over population. It may be due to poor harvests following drought, floods, earthquake, war, social conflict, etc.)
família family (A group comprising parents, offsprings and others closely related or associated with them)
fanerògama phanerogam (Plants that produce seeds. The group comprises the Gymnospermae and the Angiospermae)
fang mud (A mixture of clay and/or silt with water to form a plastic mass with a particle size preponderantly below 0.06 mm diameter. It is deposited in low-energy environments in lakes, estuaries and lagoons. It may also be deposited in deep-sea environments; sediment)
fang sludge (1. A soft, soupy, or muddy bottom deposit, such as found on tideland or in a stream bed. 2. A semifluid, slushy, murky mass of sediment resulting from treatment of water, sewage, or industrial and mining wastes, and often appearing as local bottom deposits in polluted bodies of water)
fang actiu digested sludge (Sludge or thickened mixture of sewage solids with water that has been decomposed by anaerobic bacteria)
fang d'aigües residuals waste water sludge (The removed materials resulting from physical, biological and chemical treatment of waste water)
fang d'aigües residuals sewage sludge (A semi-liquid waste with a solid concentration in excess of 2500 parts per million, obtained from the purification of municipal sewage)
fang deshidratat dehydrated sludge (Sludge whose water content has been reduced by physical means)
fang industrial industrial sludge (Sludge produced as a result of industrial production processes or manufacturing)
fang residual de depuradora residual waste sludge (The excess, unusable semi-solids or sediment resulting from a wastewater treatment or industrial process)
farmacocinètica pharmacokinetics (The study of the rates of absorption, tissue distribution, biotransformation, and excretion)
farmacologia pharmacology (The science dealing with the nature and properties of drugs, particularly their actions)
farratge fodder (Bulk feed for livestock, especially hay, straw, etc.)
fauna fauna (The entire animal life of a given region, habitat or geological stratum)
fauna avícola avifauna (All the birds in a particular region)
fauna introduïda bastardisation of fauna (One of the possible consequences of the introduction of animal species in an area where they are not indigenous. Such translocation of species always involves an element of risk if not of serious danger. Newly arrived species may be highly competitive with or otherwise adversely affect native species and communities)
fauna marina marine fauna (Animals which live in the sea)
fauna salvatge wild fauna (Not domesticated animals living independently of man)