Glossary C

The Environmental Glossary. Letter C +++ Popular Articles: 'Carbon', 'Characteristic', 'Concentration'

A Coal Cleaning Technology is a precombustion process by which Coal is physically or chemically treated to remove some of its sulfur so as to reduce sulfur dioxide emissions.

A Coal coke is a hard, porous product made from baking Bituminous coal in ovens at temperatures as high as 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit.

A Coal Gasification is Conversion of Coal to a gaseous product by one of several available technologies.

A Coal liquefaction is Conversion of solid Coal to a liquid Fuel such as synthetic crude oil or methanol.

A Coalbed methane is Methane that is produced from coalbeds in the same manner as natural gas produced from other strata. Methane is the principal component of natural gas.

Deutsch: Küste / Español: Costa / Português: Costa / Français: Côte / Italiano: Costa

In the environment context, a "coast" or "coastline" refers to the area where land meets the sea or ocean, encompassing a broad range of ecosystems including beaches, cliffs, dunes, estuaries, and mangroves. Coasts are dynamic environments where various physical, chemical, and biological processes interact, making them important areas for biodiversity, human habitation, and economic activities such as tourism, fishing, and trade.

A coastal pelagic is fish that live in the open ocean at or near the water's surface but remain relatively close to the coast.

A Coastal Zone is Lands and waters adjacent to the coast that exert an influence on the uses of the sea and its ecology, or whose uses and ecology are affected by the sea.

A cobble is medium-sized rocks (210 inches) that are found in a stream bed.

A Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) is Document that codifies all rules of the executive departments and agencies of the federal government. It is divided into fifty volumes, known as

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