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111Formosa Plastics propylene explosion — The Formosa Plastics Propylene Explosion was a propylene release and explosion that occurred on October 6 2005, in the Olefins II Unit at the Formosa Plastics plant in Point Comfort, Texas, USA. The subsequent fire burned for five days.Formosa… …
112Environmental impact of oil shale industry — includes the consideration of issues such as land use, waste management, and water and air pollution. Surface mining of oil shale deposits has all the environmental impacts of open pit mining. In addition, the combustion and thermal processing… …
113HAZMAT Class 4 Flammable Solids — Flammable solids are any materials in the solid phase of matter that can readily undergo combustion in the presence of a source of ignition under standard circumstances, i.e. without:*Artificially changing variables such as pressure or density;… …
114Phillips Disaster — The Phillips Disaster refers to a devastating series of explosions and fire in October of 1989, near the Houston Ship Channel in Texas, USA. The initial blast registered 3.5 on the Richter Scale, and the conflagration took 10 hours to bring under …
115Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations — Infobox UK Statutory Instrument Title=The Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995 parliament=United Kingdom Parliament Citation=1995 No. 3163 introduced by=Paul Beresford Department of the Environment… …
116Escalator — For the album by Sam Gopal, see Escalator (album). Escalators in a Copenhagen Metro station, Denmark, 2007 Escalator in action, 2011 An e …
117Ecoquema — Saltar a navegación, búsqueda Fuego en retroceso en Pinus nigra, Australia …
118cosmos — /koz meuhs, mohs/, n., pl. cosmos, cosmoses for 2, 4. 1. the world or universe regarded as an orderly, harmonious system. 2. a complete, orderly, harmonious system. 3. order; harmony. 4. any composite plant of the genus Cosmos, of tropical… …
119environment — environmental, adj. environmentally, adv. /en vuy reuhn meuhnt, vuy euhrn /, n. 1. the aggregate of surrounding things, conditions, or influences; surroundings; milieu. 2. Ecol. the air, water, minerals, organisms, and all other external factors… …
120nitrogen group element — ▪ chemical elements Introduction any of the chemical elements that constitute Group Va of the periodic table (see Figure >). The group consists of nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), arsenic (As), antimony (Sb), and bismuth (Bi). The elements share… …
