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Mineral oil is any of various colorless, odorless, light mixtures of higher alkanes from a mineral source, particularly a distillate of petroleum, as distinct...

Light pollution is the presence of any unwanted, inappropriate, or excessive artificial lighting. In a descriptive sense, the term light pollution refers...

Research indicates that living in areas of high pollution has serious long term health effects. Living in these areas during childhood and adolescence...

compounds for gunpowder were historically produced, in the absence of mineral nitrate sources, by means of various fermentation processes using urine...

Plastic pollution Plastic pollution is the accumulation of plastic objects and particles (e.g. plastic bottles, bags and microbeads) in the Earth's environment...

Noise pollution, or sound pollution, is the propagation of noise or sound with ranging impacts on the activity of human or animal life, most of which...

source of marine pollution. Most of the pollution is simply soil, which ends up in rivers flowing to the sea. However, some minerals discharged in the...

International Journal of Minerals, Metallurgy and Materials, 28, 513-521. Mohammed, A. S., Kapri, A., & Goel, R. (2011). Heavy metal pollution: source, impact...

Mineral rights are property rights to exploit an area for the minerals it harbors. Mineral rights can be separate from property ownership (see Split estate)...

The Mineral Revolution is a term used by historians to refer to the rapid industrialisation and economic changes which occurred in South Africa from the...

Ore is natural rock or sediment that contains one or more valuable minerals concentrated above background levels, typically containing metals, that can...

Marble is a metamorphic rock consisting of carbonate minerals (most commonly calcite (CaCO3) or dolomite (CaMg(CO3)2)) that have recrystallized under the...

environmental issues in India. Air pollution, water pollution, garbage, domestically prohibited goods and pollution of the natural environment are all...

regulations; laws governing management of natural resources, such as forests, minerals, or fisheries; and related topics such as environmental impact assessments...

the existing animal agriculture pollution issues. One of the main sources of pollution, particularly vitamin and mineral drift in soils, comes from a lack...

Soil contamination, soil pollution, or land pollution as a part of land degradation is caused by the presence of xenobiotic (human-made) chemicals or other...

erosion of streambanks, accelerated evaporation of surface water, and mineral pollution from wastewater [8]. The introduction of sediments like heavy metals...

natural or organic sources: compost, animal manure, human manure, harvested minerals, crop rotations and byproducts of human-nature industries (i.e. fish processing...

mines and their spoil heaps continue to contribute to heavy metal mineral pollution of the river and its tributaries. This has significance to fishing...

Groundwater pollution (also called groundwater contamination) occurs when pollutants are released to the ground and make their way into groundwater. This...