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| Terms for subject Environment (21507 entries) |
| altura de aspiración | lift | |
| altura de chimenea | chimney height (The appropriate height for chimneys serving industrial combustion plants in order to avoid unacceptable pollution) | |
| altura de chimenea | chimney height | |
| altura de la cresta del vertedero | ridge height of the weir | |
| altura de la marea | height of the tide | |
| altura del pico | peak height | |
| altura excesiva de pilas de chimenea | excessive height of chimney stacks | |
| alud de nieve | snowslide (An avalanche of relatively pure snow; some rock and earth material may also be carried downward) | |
| alud de nieve | snowslide | |
| aludes | avalanche (A fall or slide of a large mass, as of snow or rock, down a mountainside) | |
| aludes | avalanche | |
| alúmina | alumina (A natural or synthetic oxide of aluminum widely distributed in nature, often found as a constituent part of clays, feldspars, micas and other minerals, and as a major component of bauxite) | |
| aluminio | aluminium (A light white metal, ductile and malleable, and a good conductor of electricity. It occurs widely in nature in clays and is the third most abundant element in the Earth's crust. It is extracted mainly from bauxite by electrolysis of a molten mixture of purified bauxite and cryolite. The metal and its alloys are used for aircraft, cooking utensils, electrical apparatus, and for many other purposes where its light weight is an advantage. Aluminium became implicated as an environmental health hazard in the 1980s on two counts. Biomedical scientists looking for possible causes of Alzheimer's disease, the premature senility indicated by loss of memory and confusion, found a circumstantial link with aluminium. The theory is a controversial one, Al) | |
| aluminosilicato alcalinotérreo | natural zeolite | |
| aluviones | alluvion (An overflowing; an inundation or flood, especially when the water is charged with much suspended material) | |
| aluviones | alluvion | |
| alveolo | alveolus (A tiny, thin-walled, capillary-rich sac in the lungs where the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide takes place. Also called air sac) | |
| alveolo | alveolus | |
| alveolo estanco | lined cell | |
| amalgama | amalgam (A solution of a metal in mercury) |