- Industry: NGO
- Number of terms: 31364
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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.
System of sowing two or three crops together on the same land, one being the main crop and the others the subsidiaries.
Industry:Environment
A group of phosphorus-containing pesticide chemicals intended to control insects. Examples are malathion and parathion.
Industry:Environment
Alkaline water containing dissolved salts that interfere with some industrial processes and prevent soap from lathering.
Industry:Environment
Ambient concentration of pollutants, such as carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, measured by background stations.
Industry:Environment
Accumulation of biomass in above-ground parts of plants (trunks, branches, leaves, flowers, fruits) over a specified period.
Industry:Environment
Predominantly organic soil derived from partially decomposed plant remains that accumulate under waterlogged conditions.
Industry:Environment
Subsurface area in which all pores and cracks are filled with water to the capacity of the soil. See also waterlogging.
Industry:Environment
Threshold level of exposure to toxic substances beyond which 50 per cent of a population or of organisms cannot survive.
Industry:Environment
Characteristic(s) possessed by an individual not acquired from either parent but capable of being transmitted to progeny.
Industry:Environment
Drawing downward of chimney gases by a system of vortices or eddies within the lee of a chimney when the wind is blowing.
Industry:Environment
