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INORGANIC PARTICULATE MATTER [3 records]

Record 1 2004-02-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Environmental Studies and Analyses
CONT

Organic Particulate Matter. Organic particulate matter occurs in a wide variety of compounds in the atmosphere. ... Much of this organic matter occurs in the respirable 1 µ size range. Organic particles typically are collected for study on a filter designed to remove a minimum of 99.9% of particles having a diameter of 0.3 µ or greater.

CONT

... in a well designed and maintained treatment system, turbidity caused by high levels of inorganic suspended sediment or particulate organic matter such as algae can usually be reduced by filtering, if the particles are large enough.

CONT

An important goal of soil management is to maintain high soil structural stability. It is hypothesized that particulate organic matter (POM) contributes to aggregate stability; ...

PHR

Root-derived intraaggregate POM, surface residue-derived POM.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Études et analyses environnementales
CONT

[...] dans un système de traitement bien conçu et entretenu, la filtration permet de réduire la turbidité attribuable à une forte concentration de sédiments inorganiques en suspension ou de matières organiques particulaires comme les algues, à condition que les particules soient suffisamment grosses.

OBS

«Matière organique» tout court n'est pas un synonyme car celles-ci peuvent se présenter, dans la nature, sous la forme dissoute, particulaire ou complexe.

Spanish

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Record 2 2003-04-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Chemical Elements and Compounds
CONT

Tin is a metal which can combine with other chemicals to form compounds. When tin is combined with chemicals such as chlorine, sulfur, or oxygen, it is called an inorganic tin compound. Inorganic tin compounds are found in small amounts in the earth’s crust. They are present in toothpaste, perfumes, soaps, coloring agents, and dyes. Tin can also combine with carbon-containing materials to form organotin compounds. These compounds are used in making plastics, food packages, plastic pipes, pesticides, paints, wood preservatives, and rodent (rats and mice) repellents. There can be tin metal, as well as inorganic and organic tin compounds in the air, water, and soil near places where they are naturally present in the rocks, mined, manufactured, or used.

CONT

Inorganic tin compounds are used as pigments in the ceramic and textile industry ... The low toxicity of tin and inorganic tin compounds is the result largely of its low absorption, low tissue accumulation, and rapid excretion, primarily in the faeces.

CONT

The air emissions from the hot end coating line consist predominately of particulate matter, hydrogen chloride, organic tins and inorganic tins.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Éléments et composés chimiques
CONT

[...] certains composés organostanniques pénètrent dans l'environnement, mais on ne saurait dire si c'est parce qu'ils sont utilisés comme pesticides ou à d'autres fins, ou encore s'ils sont produits par la méthylation naturelle de composés inorganiques de l'étain.

CONT

Les composés inorganiques de l'étain sont employés comme pigments dans les industries de la céramique et du textile.

CONT

L'inhalation d'oxyde d'étain peut provoquer de la «stannose», qui est une pneumoconiose apparemment peu grave (l'étain inorganique reste au niveau du poumon).

Spanish

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Record 3 1991-05-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Air Pollution
  • Pollutants
  • Climatology
CONT

Much of the mineral particulate matter in a polluted atmosphere is in the form of oxides and other compounds produced during the combustion of high-ash fossil fuel. Most of the mineral matter ... presents no air pollution problems. Smaller ash particles called fly ash enter furnace flues and, in a properly equipped stack system, are collected efficiently. However, some of the fly ash particles escape through the stack and enter the atmosphere.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pollution de l'air
  • Agents de pollution
  • Climatologie
OBS

matière inorganique : Substance d'origine minérale qui n'a pas de structure moléculaire à base de carbone.

OBS

"Matière inorganique particulaire" est construit sur le modèle "matière organique particulaire". Le terme "particule" n'est synonyme de "matière" qu'au pluriel.

Spanish

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