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| Terms for subject Environment (6130 entries) |
| karbid | carbide | |
| karcinogén | carcinogen (A substance that causes cancer in humans and animals) | |
| karcinogenita | carcinogenicity (The ability or tendency of a substance or physical agent to cause or produce cancer) | |
| kardiológia | cardiology (The study of the heart) | |
| kardiovaskulárny systém | cardiovascular system (Those structures, including the heart and blood vessels, which provide channels for the flow of blood) | |
| Karibská oblasť | Caribbean Area (A geographical region bordered on the south by South America and Panama, and on the west by Central America, and consisting of the West Indian, and nearby, islands and the Caribbean Sea, a part of the western Atlantic Ocean) | |
| kartografia | cartography (The making of maps and charts for the purpose of visualizing spatial distributions over various areas of the earth) | |
| Kaspické more | Caspian Sea (No definition needed) | |
| katalýza | catalysis (A phenomenon in which a relatively small amount of substance augments the rate of a chemical reaction without itself being consumed) | |
| katalyzátor | catalyst (A substance whose presence alters the rate at which a chemical reaction proceeds, but whose own composition remains unchanged by the reaction. Catalysts are usually employed to accelerate reactions(positive catalyst), but retarding (negative) catalysts are also used) | |
| katalyzátor výfukových plynov | catalytic converter (Catalytic converters are designed to clean up the exhaust fumes from petrol-driven vehicles, which are otherwise the major threat to air quality standards in congested urban streets and on motorways. Converters remove carbon monoxide, the unburned hydrocarbons and the oxides of nitrogen. These compounds are damaging to human health and the environment in a variety of ways. The converter is attached to the vehicle' s exhaust near the engine. Exhaust gases pass through the cellular ceramic substrate, a honeycomb-like filter. While compact, the intricate honeycomb structure provides a surface area of 23.000 square metres. This is coated with a thin layer of platinum, palladium and rhodium metals, which act as catalysts that simulate a reaction to changes in the chemical composition of the gases. Platinum and palladium convert hydrocarbons and carbon monoxide into carbon dioxide and water vapour. Rhodium changes nitrogen oxides and hydrocarbons into nitrogen and water, which are harmless) | |
| kataster | land register (A register or survey of land, containing information on the surface of properties, tenants' names, commencing with the earliest owners through successive ownership and partitions, and such like) | |
| katastrofa | catastrophe (A sudden, widespread disaster or calamity that greatly exceeds the resources of an area or region) | |
| katastrofa | disaster (The result of a vast ecological breakdown in the relations between man and his environment, a serious and sudden event (or slow, as in drought) on such a scale that the stricken community needs extraordinary efforts to cope with it, often with outside help or international aid) | |
| katastrofa spôsobená ľudskou činnosťou | manmade disaster | |
| katastrofa zapríčinená extrémnym počasím | meteorological disaster (Violent, sudden and destructive change to the environment related to, produced by, or affecting the earth's atmosphere, especially the weather-forming processes) | |
| kategória ohrozených druhov | category of endangered species (Those of the planet's flora and fauna which are threatened with extinction. Hunting and poaching to fuel the trade in ivory, horn, skins, fur and feathers have long been a threat to already endangered species. Pollution, agricultural expansion, loss of wetlands, deforestation and other erosion of habitats have been added to the hazards. Human activity was responsible for most of the animals and plants known to have been lost in the past two centuries) | |
| kategórie odpadov | type of waste (A grouping by type of unusable material left over from any process) | |
| kategorizácia odpadov | waste classification (The arrangement of unwanted materials left over from manufacturing processes or refuse from places of human or animal habitation into a variety of categories based on chemical and microbiological constituents or other common characteristics) | |
| katión | cation (A positively charged atom or group of atoms, or a radical which moves to the negative pole (cathode) during electrolysis) |