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The United Nations Organization (UNO), or simply United Nations (UN), is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and the achieving of world peace.
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Industry:Environment
Highly poisonous volatile liquid formed by the reaction of hot carbon monoxide and nickel. It is found in the emissions of automobiles. The vapour can cause lung cancer.
Industry:Environment
Inheritable changes, chiefly mutations, produced by the absorption of ionizing radiations. On the basis of present knowledge, these effects are additive and irreversible.
Industry:Environment
Process in physical planning, or the results thereof, in which specific functions or uses are assigned to certain areas (for example, industrial zones, residential areas).
Industry:Environment
Removal of particulate air pollutants from their gaseous media, using gravitational, centrifugal, electrostatic and magnetic forces, thermal diffusion or other techniques.
Industry:Environment
Sensitivity to substances such as pollen, food or hair resulting in pathological conditions in certain people; it may also be caused by mental or environmental conditions.
Industry:Environment
Lower region of the stratosphere, 15-25 kilometres above the earth's surface, in which there is an appreciable ozone concentration. It is also termed the ozone layer.
Industry:Environment
Muddy, semi-solid deposits remaining after most liquids have been removed from waste water (possibly through filtration and chemical treatment). See also activated sludge.
Industry:Environment
Oxygen-containing substance that reacts chemically with other substances in the air to produce new substances. Oxidants are the primary contributors to photochemical smog.
Industry:Environment
Product of combustion from transportation and stationary sources. It is a major contributor to acid depositions and the formation of ground-level ozone in the troposphere.
Industry:Environment
