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Glossary E

The Environmental Glossary. Letter E +++ Popular Articles: 'Environment', 'Electricity', 'Ecosystem'

Employee

An Employee means an individual employed at the facility, including the owner of the facility who performs work on-site; and individuals, such as a contractor, who, at the facility, perform work that is related to the operations of the facility, for the period of time that the individual is performing that work.

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Empty planchet

An Empty planchet is for G-M detectors, internal proportional counters, low background beta counters, alpha spectrometers.
Scintillation vial containing scintillant and sample known

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Endangered species

Deutsch: Gefährdete Arten / Español: Especies en peligro / Português: Espécies em perigo / Français: Espèces en voie de disparition / Italiano: Specie in via di estinzione /

Endangered species are species in danger of extinction throughout all or a significant part of its range.

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Endemic

An Endemic is Species Characteristic of or prevalent in a particular or restricted locality or region.

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Endocrine disruptors

endocrine disruptors are substances that stop the production or block the transmission of hormones in the body.

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Energy

Deutsch: Energie / Español: Energía / Português: Energia / Français: Énergie / Italiano: Energia /

An Energy is the power to do work. Making new items from recycled ones takes less Energy than making products from brand new materials.

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Energy Balance

An Energy Balance is a detailed accounting of all energy flowing into and out of a volume or surface.

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Energy conservation

An energy conservation is using Energy efficiently or prudently; saving energy.

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Energy efficiency

Deutsch: Energieeffizienz / Español: eficiencia energética / Português: eficiência energética / Français: efficacité énergétique / Italiano: efficienza energetica

Energy efficiency are technologies and measures that reduce the amount of electricity and/or Fuel required to do the same work, such as powering homes, offices and industries.

An Energy-efficiency is also the ratio of the energy use by such an article to the useful output of services from an article of industrial equipment; for example, liter per 100 km of the moved vehicle (or in the USA: vehicle miles traveled per gallon of fuel (mpg)).

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Energy intensity

An Energy intensity is Ratio between the consumption of energy to a given quantity of output; usually refers to the amount of primary or final energy consumed per unit of gross domestic product.

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