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" The extent of mercury pollution in the ground around the nearby Usolye chemical plant is equal to half the total global production of mercury in 1992.
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Little more was done with this phenomenon until 1856 when a German glassblower named Heinrich Geissler created a mercury vacuum pump that evacuated a glass tube to an extent not previously possible.
Gold occurs principally as a native metal, usually alloyed to a greater or lesser extent with silver ( as electrum ), or sometimes with mercury ( as an amalgam ).
extent and pollution
The air pollution also affects the visibility in the city to such an extent that airplanes on some occasions are prevented from landing at the local airport.
To the extent that green taxes correct for externalities such as pollution, they correspond with mainstream economic theory.
To what extent this pollution harms the high-altitude ecosystem is debatable.
The IUCN described the major threats to M. owstoni populations ' as either harvesting ( as an intentional target for fishing ), accidental mortality ( bycatch ) and to a lesser extent, water pollution.
Noise pollution is to some extent a problem, since although most ranges are located in relatively remote locations, many ranges may be closed down if the noise becomes a problem for the nearest inhabitants.
Already in the 1950s, the artificial lights of Canberra had brightened the sky at Mount Stromlo to such an extent that many faint astronomical objects had been overwhelmed by light pollution.
However, pollution from agricultural fertilizers has increased the nutrient levels of these lakes to the extent that they now remain a year-round green colour.
If the architect of the building-to-be has specified a brown roof then sometimes rubble is specially brought in on trucks, which to some extent defeats the object of nature conservancy, landfill waste reduction, transport pollution reduction and transport volume reduction.
The high population of the time caused tremendous problems with urban sprawl, traffic, pollution, and, to a lesser extent, crime.
extent and ground
Other factors playing a part in the extent of AM service and interference are the frequency involved, the time of year, the position of the year in the sunspot cycle, ground conductivity along the transmission path, atmospheric and manmade noise, and others.
A second ground is that the epistle features a strong use of liturgical-hymnic style which appears nowhere else in Paul's work to the same extent.
" To some extent this may be because the villagers were re-settled into permanent villages, where slash-and-burn agriculture was no longer appropriate, but they had no concept or tradition of fertilising the ground.
When contact is made with the ground, the knee joint begins to flex, and the extent it flexes varies with running style.
The design of all structures and buildings use the ground snow load to some extent by professional engineers and designers.
Spotting provides ground information and localized conditions that the National Weather Service might not know the extent or might not otherwise be aware of.
By 1922, the popularity of tennis had grown to the extent that the club's small ground could no longer cope with the numbers of spectators and the renamed All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club moved to new grounds close to Wimbledon Park.
) The endowments which St John's was given at its foundation, and during the twenty or so years afterward, served it very well and in the second half of the nineteenth century it benefited, as ground landlord, from the suburban development of the city of Oxford and was unusual among Colleges for the size and extent of its property within the city.
To a great extent, the majority of these can be termed " ground effect " or " water effect " vehicles rather than hovercraft.
The damage was less severe than might have been expected given its velocity ; it was to some extent cushioned by falling into fairly soft muddy ground.
Below ground, the full extent of Marko's meticulous deception is revealed.
The Roman remains are buried on the southern side of the town, but the extent of the Roman forts at Usk may be traced on the ground by means of plaques set into the pavement.
Little Ravens tend to eat rather more vegetable matter than C. coronoides and to feed mainly on the ground, but is probably omnivorous to a similar extent to other Corvus species when opportunity arises.
She recognized the extent of the ground before her as a mingled sphere of poetry, history, devotion, and art.
During the period of the unusually low price of barley of 1886, which greatly affected the Swedish farmers, protection gained ground to such an extent that its final triumph was considered as certain within a short time.
In Classic organisations, problems with the moving " figure " and moving " ground " often become magnified through a much larger social space, one in which there is a far greater extent of hierarchical task interdependence.
Due to the extent of ground disturbance in warfare during World War I, corn poppies bloomed in between the trench lines and no man's lands on the Western front.
These actions have been generally effective in reducing the extent of broken ground, though the intrusion into the natural landscape has at times been controversial.
Makarios undoubtedly had common political ground with EOKA and was acquainted with its leader, the Greek soldier and politician George Grivas, but the extent of his involvement is unclear and disputed.
Sea squirts have become a testing ground in the controversy about the extent to which cross-species gene transfer and hybridization have influenced animal evolution.
Dobrynin, however, misunderstood the extent to which the U. S. was willing to apply military force not involving ground troops, culminating in Operation Linebacker II.
The vale is an extent of lower lying ground separating the chalk downs of Salisbury Plain to the south from the Marlborough Downs to the north.
The extent of ground cover in mulga woodlands varies with canopy density of the overstorey, becoming almost nonexistent in extremely dense stands.
On the right, Leopold's cavalry wing under the seventy year old Wilhelm Dietrich von Buddenbrock, a veteran who had fought at Oudenarde, spread his cavalry line to the right to take advantage of a rise in the ground which conceal its extent, allowing Buddenbrock to out flank the oncoming Austrian left flank cavalry.
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The Frankish Empire ( at its greatest extent around the year 800 ) included most of modern Franconia, which was situated at its easternmost borders.
The game is played all over North America, Europe and in many other countries around the world to varying extent.
As the year progresses and the Earth moves around the sun, the North Pole gradually turns away from the sun until at midwinter it is facing away from the Sun to its maximum extent.
The sea ice at the North Pole is typically around thick, although ice thickness, its spatial extent, and the fraction of open water within the ice pack can vary rapidly and profoundly in response to weather and climate.
Picture depicting extent of early civilizations around the Persian Gulf, including Lackhmids, and Sassanids.
The extent to which lands and positions should be passed down through hereditary right or by the gift of the king was still uncertain, and tensions around this issue had grown during the reign of Henry I.
Possibly related to this hobby is the fact that Gladstone was a lifelong bibliophile to the extent that it has been suggested that in his lifetime, he read around 20, 000 books, and eventually came to own a Library of over 32, 000.
* The weed control, to the extent that it is done via tillage, is usually achieved with cultivators or hoes, which disturb the top few centimeters of soil around the crop plants but with minimal disturbance of the crop plants themselves.
One reason the language of Aquitaine is important is because Basque is the last surviving non-Indo-European language in western Europe and it has had some effect on the languages around it, including Spanish and, to a lesser extent, French.
Since the Great Salt Lake is a shallow lake with gently sloping shores around all edges except on the south side, small variations in the water level greatly affect the extent of the shoreline.
Their extent corresponded to southern Ulanqab and Bayannur in modern Inner Mongolia, plus the region around Zhangjiakou in Hebei province.
In 1970, the original extent of cloud forests on the Earth was around 50 million hectares.
They became severely dyspeptic and completely blind from sunset until dawn, to the extent that their fitter companions had to lead them around the camp.
Some of these provinces were not part of the Kingdom of France, and especially around the borders may have had a different extent than this map shows.
Nemesis, in the shape of Thelma ( and to a lesser extent, Terry's sister Audrey ) was usually waiting just around the corner.
On the surface, his songs centre to a large extent around themes like the joy of inebriation and the pursuit of sexual pleasure.
Other Teen Idol's from TV at around the same time were most of the cast of Saved by the Bell, Rider Strong of Boy Meets World, Joseph Gordon-Levitt of 3rd Rock From the Sun, Joey Lawrence of Blossom ( and to a lesser extent, Joey's brothers, Matthew and Andrew ), Jason Priestley and Luke Perry of Beverly Hills, 90210 fame, and Erik Von Detten of various TGIF shows.
However, in the Somerset County Agricultural Society, he found a map showing the types of soils and vegetation around Bath and their geographical extent.
The practice of “ beating the bounds ” was practised annually when the inhabitants went in procession around the parish boundaries, to show locals the extent of their lands.
The Crown became richer to the extent of around £ 150, 000 (£ as of ), per year, although around £ 50, 000 (£ as of ) of this was committed to fund monastic pensions ; and Cromwell had intended that the bulk of this wealth should serve as regular income of government.
The evolution of the French state and culture, from the Renaissance to today, has however promoted a centralization of politics, media and cultural production in and around Paris ( and, to a lesser extent, around the other major urban centers ), and the industrialization of the country in the 20th century has led to a massive move of French people from the countryside to urban areas.
The Stadtbahn is well known in transport circles around the world for pioneering the concept of operating trams on train tracks, to achieve a more effective and attractive public transport system, to the extent that this is often known as the Karlsruhe model tram-train system.
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