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- Abyssal Plain
The flattened floor of the deep ocean
- Animal Wastes
Animal manure, litter or bedding; water that has contacted animal manure, litter, or bedding; water from washing, flushing, or cleaning animal pens; and liquid or soil waste from pens used at kennels, animal hospitals, poultry processing facilities, dairies or rendering plants.
- Antifreeze
A toxic chemical liquid that is added to a vehicle’s radiator to protect the engine from freezing during cold weather and overheating during hot weather
- Aquifer
A geologic formation(s) that is water bearing
- Aquitards
A saturated, but poorly permeable bed that impedes ground-water movement and does not yield water freely to wells, but which may transmit appreciable water to or from adjacent aquifers and where sufficiently thick, may constitute an important ground-water storage unit. Aquitards are characterized by values of leakance that may range from relatively low to relatively high. A really extensive aquitards of relatively low leakance may function regionally as boundaries of aquifer flow systems
- Atom
The smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element