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irreversibility [2 records]

Record 1 2004-07-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Environment
  • Air Pollution
CONT

Irreversibility can be viewed as a failure to recover over geological time; but for natural resource systems, an incomplete recovery to a prestressed or undamaged state over a few decades, for all practical purposes, may be regarded as irreversible.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Environnement
  • Pollution de l'air
DEF

Propriété d'une réaction chimique ou d'une transformation thermodynamique irréversible.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Medio ambiente
  • Contaminación del aire
DEF

Imposibilidad de recobrar su función o forma.

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Record 2 1999-01-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • General Scientific and Technical Vocabulary

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vocabulaire technique et scientifique général

Spanish

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