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Acoustic doppler current profiler
ACDP is a sonar that measures water current velocities at a range of depths. They can be mounted on boats or moorings for short-term surveys or attached to the seabed for long term current and wave studies.
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Adamsite
Adamsite is an organic compound traditionally used as a chemical warfare agent. It is an arsenical diphenylaminechlorarsine, an odourless crystalline compound, usually dispersed as aerosol and which affects the upper respiratory tract. It was first synthesized in Germany in 1915 and used during World War I.
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Bathymetry
Bathymetry is the study of underwater depth of lake and ocean floors. The information for bathymetric maps today usually comes from an echosounder (a sonar mounted under a boat which sends a beam of sound downward at the seafloor and measures the time it takes for it to bounce off the floor and return) or from remote sensing LIDAR/LADAR systems (sa [..]
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bioaccumulation
Bioaccumulation refers to the accumulation of substances such as chemicals or toxic substances in an organism that occurs when its absorption rate is greater than the rate at which the substance is lost. It can lead to chronic poisoning even if environmental levels of the toxin are not very high. In fish, bioaccumulation can be predicted by models. [..]
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biohazard
A biological hazard refers to a biological substance that poses a threat to the health of living organisms.
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Biomarker
A biological marker is an indicator of a biological state. It is a characteristic that is measured and evaluated as an indicator of normal biological or pathogenic processes. Biomarkers are used to indicate an exposure to chemicals in the environment by an organism.
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Blister agent
A blister agent, also known as a vesicant, is a chemical compound causing severe skin, eye and mucosal pain and irritation, as do many chemical warfare agents. There are three groups of blister agents: 1) Sulfur mustards (including mustard gas), 2) Nitrogen mustards, and 3) Lewisite (an early blister agent developed but not used during World War I) [..]
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Chemical munitions
Munitions containing chemical agents.
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Chemical Warfare Agents
CWAs are chemical substances whose toxic properties are used to kill, injure or incapacitate. About 70 different chemicals have been used or stockpiled as chemical warfare agents in the 20th
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Chemical Weapons Convention
The Chemical Weapons Convention or Convention for the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and Their Destruction is an arms control agreement that aims prohibit the development, production, acquisition, stockpiling, transfer or use of chemical weapons by State Parties. It came into effect in 1993 and i [..]
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