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- 24-hour standard:
in regulations: the allowable average concentration over 24 hours
- absorption spectrum:
"fingerprint" of a compound generated when it absorbs characteristic light frequencies
- absorption:
the uptake of water, other fluids, or dissolved chemicals by a cell or an organism (as tree roots absorb dissolved nutrients in soil)
- acetylcholine:
a chemical that transmits nerve signals to muscles and other nerves
- acute:
in medicine, short-term or happening quickly
- adherence:
substances: sticking to; regulation: abiding by
- adjudicative:
involving the court system
- adsorption:
removal of a pollutant from air or water by collecting the pollutant on the surface of a solid material; e.g., an advanced method of treating waste in which activated carbon removes organic matter from wastewater
- advise and consent:
the formal responsibility of a government body to provide counsel and approval for the actions of another body, especially the Senate to the president
- aerate:
process of injecting air into...
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