any of various water-soluble compounds having a sour taste and capable of turning litmus red and reacting with a base to form a salt
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a small discrete mass of solid or liquid matter that remains individually dispersed in gas or liquid emissions (usually considered to be an atmospheric pollutant)
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rain containing acids that form in the atmosphere when industrial gas emissions (especially sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides) combin…
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Pollution.rain containing acids that form in the atmosphere when industrial gas emissions (especially sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides) combin…
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Pollution.a mixture of gases (especially oxygen) required for breathing; the stuff that the wind consists of; "air pollution"; "a smell of chemi…
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Pollution.a mixture containing two or more metallic elements or metallic and nonmetallic elements usually fused together or dissolving into each…
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Pollution.(used of soil) compact and fine-grained; "the clayey soil was heavy and easily saturated"
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Pollution.(used of soil) compact and fine-grained; "the clayey soil was heavy and easily saturated"
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Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Pollution.a substance that contaminates
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Pollution.water mixed with waste matter
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Pollution.the occurrence of a flow of water (as from a pipe)
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Pollution.excessive nutrients in a lake or other body of water, usually caused by runoff of nutrients (animal waste, fertilizers, sewage) from t…
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Pollution.material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow (especially with reference to its quality or use); "the…
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That which is behind in payment, or which remains unpaid, though due; esp. a remainder, or balance which remains due when some part ha…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, discrete, mass, solid, liquid.Of or pertaining to the atmosphere; of the nature of, or resembling, the atmosphere; as, atmospheric air; the atmospheric envelope of…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, discrete, mass, solid, liquid.(chemistry) any theory in which all matter is composed of tiny discrete finite indivisible indestructible particles; "the ancient Gree…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, discrete, mass, solid, liquid.(chemistry) any theory in which all matter is composed of tiny discrete finite indivisible indestructible particles; "the ancient Gree…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, discrete, mass, solid, liquid.(chemistry) any theory in which all matter is composed of tiny discrete finite indivisible indestructible particles; "the ancient Gree…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, discrete, mass, solid, liquid.(chemistry) any theory in which all matter is composed of tiny discrete finite indivisible indestructible particles; "the ancient Gree…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, discrete, mass, solid, liquid.Any instrument showing the changes in the weight of the atmosphere; also, less appropriately, any instrument that indicates -or foresh…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, discrete, mass, solid, liquid.A mass of matter concreted, congealed, or molded into a solid mass of any form, esp. into a form rather flat than high; as, a cake of…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, discrete, mass, solid, liquid.a monument built to honor people whose remains are interred elsewhere or whose remains cannot be recovered
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Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, discrete, mass, solid, liquid.A solid of the form described by the revolution of a right-angled triangle about one of the sides adjacent to the right angle; -- call…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, discrete, mass, solid, liquid.Disjunctive; containing a disjunctive or discretive clause; as, "I resign my life, but not my honor," is a discrete proposition.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, discrete, mass, solid, liquid.The earthy remains of bodies once alive; the remains of the human body.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, discrete, mass, solid, liquid.To become congealed by cold; to be changed from a liquid to a solid state by the abstraction of heat; to be hardened into ice or a lik…
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