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ELEMENTS INERTES SUSPENSION [1 record]

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Record 1 2015-03-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Water Pollution
  • Pollutants
  • Chemistry
CONT

Inert suspensions of finely divided matter result from many types of mining and quarrying ... and from washing processes ...

OBS

If solids are completely inert, ... the amount of deposit on the river bed slowly builds up ... Oxidisable solids on the other hand ... are steadily broken down by bacteria; a balance therefore results between the rates of settling and decomposition ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pollution de l'eau
  • Agents de pollution
  • Chimie
OBS

[...] d'autres éléments - bien qu'inertes - peuvent être considérés comme polluants. Ce sont toutes les matières susceptibles de se déposer [...] sous forme de sédiments [...] ou de former un dépôt de tartre [...] Cette forme de pollution est caractérisée par la teneur en matières en suspension et en matières dissoutes.

Spanish

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