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Preferred term

pollution

Definition

  • [Henderson's] n. any harmful or undesirable change in the physical, chemical or bio­logical quality of air, water or soil as a result of the release of e.g. chemicals, radioactivity, heat, large amounts of organic matter (as in sewage). Usually appl. changes arising from human activity although natural pollutants, e.g. volcanic dust, sea salt, are known.

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Scope note

  • US LTER controlled vocabulary

Creator

  • herbert.schentz@umweltbundesamt.at

In other languages

Arabic

  • التلوث

Bulgarian

  • Замърсяване

Croatian

  • onečišćenje

Czech

  • znečištění

Danish

  • forurening

Dutch

  • verontreiniging

Estonian

  • reostamine, reostus, saastamine, saastus

Finnish

  • saastuminen, saaste

French

  • pollution

German

  • Verunreinigung

Greek

  • ρύπανση

Hungarian

  • szennyezés

Italian

  • inquinamento

Latvian

  • piesārņojums

Lithuanian

  • teršimas, tarša

Norwegian

  • forurensning

Polish

  • zanieczyszczenie

Portuguese

  • poluição

Romanian

  • poluare

Slovak

  • znečistenie

Slovenian

  • onesnaženje

Spanish

  • contaminación

Swedish

  • förorening, miljöförstöring

URI

http://vocabs.lter-europe.net/EnvThes/20387

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