| asbestos (Generic name for a group of fibrous mineral silicates. It includes blue asbestos (crocidolite), white asbestos (chrysotile) and brown asbestos (amosite). After they are mined the asbestos fibres are separated from the rock and are spun into a cloth. When inhaled the fibres penetrate the lungs and the tissues of the bronchial tubes, resulting in asbestosis, a crippling lung disease. Asbestos also causes cancer of the lung and the gastro-intestinal tract, and mesothelioma, a malignant cancer of the inner lining of the chest. However, because it is a poor conductor of electricity and highly resistant to heat it has been widely used over the years in fire-fighting suits, and building and insulating materials. The fibrous form of several silicate minerals, at one time widely used for electrical and thermal insulation; the use of all forms of asbestos is now either banned or strictly controlled in many countries since it causes cancer) |
azbest |
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| asbestos cement |
azbestocement |
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| asbestosis |
azbestoza |
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| ash |
popiół |
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| Asia (The world's largest continent. It occupies the eastern part of the Eurasian landmass and its adjacent islands and is separated from Europe by the Ural Mountains. Asia borders on the Arctic Ocean, the Pacific Ocean, the Indian Ocean, and the Mediterranean and Red Seas in the west. It includes the largest peninsulas of Asia Minor, India, Arabia, and Indochina and the island groups of Japan, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Ceylon; contains the mountain ranges of the Hindu Kush, Himalayas, Pamirs, Tian Shan, Urals, and Caucasus, the great plateaus of India, Iran and Tibet, vast plains and deserts, and the valleys of many large rivers including the Mekong, Irrawaddy, Indus, Ganges, Tigris and Euphrates) |
Azja |
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| asphalt, tar and tarred products |
odpady asfaltów, smół i produktów smołowych |
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| assay |
oznaczanie |
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| Assessment Report |
sprawozdanie oceniające Międzyrządowego Zespołu ds. Zmian Klimatu |
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| Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change |
sprawozdanie oceniające Międzyrządowego Zespołu ds. Zmian Klimatu |
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| assigned amount |
przyznane uprawnienia do emisji |
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| assimilation |
asymilacja |
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| association (A body of persons associated for the regulation of a common economic activity by means of a special organization) |
stowarzyszenie |
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| astronautics |
kosmonautyka |
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| astronomy (The science concerned with celestial bodies and the observation and interpretation of the radiation received in the vicinity of the earth from the component parts of the universe) |
astronomia |
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| atlas (A bound collection of maps or charts, plates, engravings or tables illustrating any subject) |
atlas |
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| atmosphere (The gaseous envelope surrounding the Earth in a several kilometers-thick layer) |
atmosfera |
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| atmospheric aerosol |
aerosol |
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| atmospheric chemistry (The study of the production, transport, modification, and removal of atmospheric constituents in the troposphere and stratosphere) |
chemia atmosfery |
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| atmospheric circulation (The general movement and circulation of air, which transfers energy between different levels of the atmosphere. The mechanisms of circulation are very complicated. They involve the transfer of energy between the oceans and the atmosphere, the land and the atmosphere, as well as the different levels of the atmosphere) |
krążenie mas powietrza |
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| atmospheric component (The Earth's atmosphere consists by volume of nitrogen (79,1%), oxygen (20,9%), carbon dioxide (about 0,03%) and traces of the noble gases (argon, krypton, xenon, helium) plus water vapour, traces of ammonia, organic matter, ozone, various salts and suspended solid particles) |
składniki powietrza |
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