| jirrispetta l-ambjent |
environment friendly (Human activities, enterprises or products that reinforce rather than undermine the integrity of the ecosystem) |
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| jodju |
iodine (A nonmetallic halogen element; the poisonous, corrosive dark plates or granules are readily sublimed; insoluble in water, soluble in common solvents; used as germicide and antiseptic, in dyes, tinctures, and pharmaceuticals, in engraving lithography, and as a catalyst and analytical reagent) |
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| joni |
ion (An electrically charged atom or group of atoms formed by the loss or gain of one or more electrons) |
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| jonosfera |
ionosphere (A region of the earth's atmosphere, extending from about 60 to 1000 kilometers above the earth's surface, in which there is a high concentration of free electrons formed as a result of ionizing radiation entering the atmosphere from space) |
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| Jum Dinji tal-Ilma |
World Day for Water |
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| Jum Dinji tal-Ilma |
World Water Day |
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| Jum Internazzjonali għat-Tnaqqis tad-Diżastri Naturali |
International Day for Natural Disaster Reduction |
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| kaċċa |
hunting (The pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals, regarded as a sport) |
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| kaċċa |
hunting |
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| kaċċa / nsib bin-nases |
trapping (To catch an animal in a mechanical device or enclosed place or pit) |
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| kaċċa għall-baleni |
whaling (Catching whales to use as food or for their oil, etc. Whales are the largest mammals still in existence. They are caught mainly for their oils, though in some case for food. Some species of whale have become extinct because of overexploitation and the population of many of the existing species is dangerously low. Commercial whaling is severely restricted) |
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| kaċċa għall-baleni |
whaling |
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| kaċċa illegali |
poaching (To catch game, fish, etc. illegally by trespassing on private property) |
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| kadmju |
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) |
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| kalċju |
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) |
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| Kalandra |
calandra lark |
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| kalibrar |
calibration (To mark the scale of a measuring instrument so that readings can be made in appropriate units) |
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| kalibrar ta' strumenti ta' kejl |
calibration of measuring equipment (The determination or rectification of, according to an accepted standard, the graduation of any instrument giving quantitative measurements) |
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| kalkara rotatorja |
rotary kiln |
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| kalkara tal-funderija |
blast furnace (A tall, cylindrical smelting furnace for reducing iron ore to pig iron; the blast of air blown through solid fuel increases the combustion rate) |
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