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| Terms for subject Environment (5171 entries) |
| campingplass | camping site (A piece of land where people on holiday can stay in tents, usually with toilets and places for washing) | |
| canyon | canyon (A long deep, relatively narrow steep-sided valley confined between lofty and precipitous walls in a plateau or mountainous area, often with a stream at the bottom; similar to, but largest than, a gorge. It is characteristic of an arid or semiarid area (such as western U.S) where stream downcutting greatly exceeds weathering) | |
| CD-ROM | CD-ROM (A compact disc on which a large amount of digitalised read-only data can be stored, compact disc read-only-memory) | |
| celle | cell (The microscopic functional and structural unit of all living organisms, consisting of a nucleus, cytoplasm, and a limiting membrane; biology) | |
| cellulose | cellulose (The main polysaccharide in living plants, forming the skeletal structure of the plant cell wall; a polymer of beta-D-glucose linked together with the elimination of water to form chains of 2000-4000 units) | |
| celluloseindustri | cellulose industry (No definition needed) | |
| cesium | caesium (A soft silvery-white and highly reactive metal belonging to the alkali group of metals. It is a radiation hazard, because it can occur in two radioactive forms. Caesium-134 is produced in nuclear reactors, not directly by fission, but by the reaction. It emits beta- and gamma-radiation and has a half-life of 2.06 years. Caesium-137 is a fission product of uranium and occurs in the fallout from nuclear weapons. It emits beta- and gamma-rays and has a half-life of 30 years. Caesium-137 was the principal product released into the atmosphere, and hence the food chain, from atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons and from the Windscale fire and Chernobyl nuclear accidents. After the Chernobyl accident, which spread a radiation cloud across Europe, the European Commission proposed new and more restrictive limits on levels of caesium in food and drinking water) | |
| Chagas' sykdom | Chagas' disease (A form of trypanosomiasis found in South America, caused by the protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi, characterized by fever and often inflammation of the hearth muscle) | |
| Chelicerata | chelicerate (A subphylum of the phylum Artrophoda; chelicerae are characteristically modified as pincers) | |
| Chordata | chordate (The highest phylum in the animal kingdom, characterized by a notochord, nerve cord, and gill slits; includes the urochordate, lancelets and vertebrates) | |
| colubridae | colubrid (Any snakes of the family of Colubridae, including many harmless snakes, such as the grass snake and whip belonging to the Colubridae) | |
| cruisefart | cruising (Travelling by sea in a liner for pleasure, usually calling at a number of ports) | |
| cyanat | cyanate (A salt or ester of cyanic acid containing the radical OCN) | |
| cyanid | cyanide (Any of a group of compounds containing the CN group and derived from hydrogen cyanide, HCN) | |
| cytologi | cytology (A branch of the biological sciences which deals with the structure, behaviour, growth, and reproduction of cells and the functions and chemistry of cell components) | |
| cytotoksisitet | cytotoxicity (The degree to which an agent possesses a specific destructive action on certain cells or the possession of such action; used particularly in referring to the lysis of cells by immune phenomena and to antineoplastic drugs that selectively kill dividing cells) | |
| dagbrudd | opencast mining (Extracting metal ores and minerals that lie near the surface by removing the overlying material and breaking and loading the ore) | |
| dagbrudd | strip mining (Superficial mining, in which the valuable rock is exposed by removal of overburden. Coal, numerous nonmetals and metalliferous ores (iron and copper) are worked in this way. Sinonym: strip mining, opencast mining, openpit mining) | |
| dal | valley (Any low-lying land bordered by higher ground; especially an elongate, relatively large, gently sloping depression of the Earth's surface, commonly situated between two mountains or between ranges of hills or mountains, and often containing a stream with an outlet. It is usually developed by stream erosion, but may be formed by faulting) | |
| dalgryte | geographic cirque (A deep steep-walled half-bowl-like recess or hollow, variously described as horseshoe- or crescent-shaped or semi-circular in plan, situated high on the side of a mountain and commonly at the head of a glacial valley and produced by the erosive activity of a mountain glacier. It often contains a small round lake, and it may or may not be occupied by ice or snow) |