Glossary B

The Environmental Glossary. Letter B +++ Popular Articles: 'Background extinction', 'Blood Products', 'Biological Integrity'

Deutsch: Bitumen / Español: Betun / Português: Betume / Français: Bitume / Italiano: Bitume
A Bitumen is Gooey, black, high-sulfur, heavy oil extracted from tar sand and then upgraded to synthetic Fuel oil.

A Bituminous coal is a dense, black, soft coal, often with well -defined bands of bright and dull material.

A Black-out House is houses that do not allow any natural light into the building.

A Blackwater is Water that contains animal, human, or food waste.

A Blank sample is a control sample in which the detector is unexposed and submitted for analysis. Often used to determine detector background values.

A Blind Quarter is a quarter of an Udder that does not secrete milk or one that has an obstruction in the teat that prevents the removal of milk. A nonfunctional mammary gland.

Blind spikes are Detectors exposed to known radon or decay product concentrations and submitted for analysis without being labeled as such.

A bloc is a group of people with the same interest or goal (usually used to describe a voting bloc, a group of representatives intending to vote the same way).

A Block-rate pricing is Method of charging on the basis of the volume of water used.

A Blood Enzyme Level is measure of a change in the enzymes normally present in the blood of a species as a result of exposure to a contaminant

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