| platja |
beach (The unconsolidated material that covers a gently sloping zone, typically with a concave profile, extending landward from the low-water line to the place where there is a definite change in material or physiographic from (such as a cliff), or to the line of permanent vegetation (usually the effective limit of the highest storm waves); a shore of body of water, formed and washed by waves or tides, usually covered by sand or gravel, and lacking a bare rocky surface) |
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| platí |
platinum (A ductile malleable silvery-white metallic element very resistant to heat and chemicals. It occurs free and in association with other platinum metals, especially in osmiridium; used in jewellery, laboratory apparatus, electrical contacts, dentistry, electroplating, and as a catalyst) |
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| plaça |
square (An open area in a town, sometimes including the surrounding buildings) |
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| plenamar |
high tide water (The level of water when the tide is at its highest level) |
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| plet |
litigation (A judicial contest, a judicial controversy, a suit at law) |
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| plom |
lead (A heavy toxic bluish-white metallic element that is highly malleable; occurs principally as galena and is used in alloys, accumulators, cable sheaths, paints, and as a radiation shield, Pb) |
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| pluja |
rain (Precipitation in the form of liquid water drops with diameters greater than 0.5 millimeter) |
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| pluja àcida |
acid rain (Rain having a pH less than 5.6. The acidity results from chemical reactions occurring when water, sulphur dioxide, and nitrogen oxides, generally released by industrial processes, are chemically transformed into sulphuric and nitric acids) |
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| plutoni |
plutonium (A highly toxic metallic transuranic element. It occurs in trace amounts in uranium ores and is produced in a nuclear reactor by neutron bombardment of uranium-238. The most stable and important isotope, plutonium-239, readily undergoes fission and is used as a reactor fuel in nuclear power stations and in nuclear weapons) |
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| plàncton |
plankton (Small organisms (animals, plants, or microbes) passively floating in water) |
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| plàstic |
plastic (A polymeric material (usually organic) of large molecular weight which can be shaped by flow; usually refers to the final product with fillers, plasticizers, pigments, and stabilizers included (versus the resin, the homogeneous polymeric starting material); examples are polyvinyl chloride, polyethylene, and urea-formaldehyde) |
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| plàstic reciclable |
recyclable plastic (Plastic waste that can be transformed into new products) |
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| pneumàtic |
tyre (A rubber ring placed over the rim of a wheel of a road vehicle to provide traction and reduce road shocks) |
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| pneumàtic de cotxe |
car tyre (A rubber ring placed over the rim of a wheel of a road vehicle to provide traction and reduce road shocks, especially a hollow inflated ring consisting of a reinforced outer casing enclosing an inner tube) |
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| pneumàtic usat |
scrap tyre (Recyclable material from discarded motor vehicle tyres) |
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| població |
population (A group of organisms of one species, occupying a defined area; ecological) |
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| població activa |
active population (The number of people available and eligible for employment within a given enterprise, region or nation) |
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| població activa agrària |
working population engaged in agriculture (The number of a particular region or nation's working population gainfully employed or otherwise occupied with the production of crops, livestock or poultry) |
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| població animal |
animal population (A group of animals inhabiting a given area) |
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| població humana |
human population (Group of individuals having common characteristics) |
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