The undesirable overgrowth of vegetation caused by high concentrates of plant nutrients in bodies of water.
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xylidine
Any of six isomeric compounds that have the formula C8H11N, are derivatives of xylene, and resemble aniline: used in dye manufacture.
Extrapolate
To estimate the value of a result outside the range of a series of known values. Technique used in standard additions calibration procedure.
Beta Particle
Electron emitted from the nucleus when a neuton decays to a proton and an electron.
Vapor Pressure
The particle pressure of a vapor at the surface of its parent liquid.
Diamagnetism
Weak repulsion by a magnetic field.
Flux
A substance added to react with the charge, or a product of its reduction, in metallurgy, usually added to lower a melting point.
Bonding Orbital
A molecular orbit lower in energy than any of the atomic orbitals from which it is derived, lends stability to a molecule or ion when populated with electron.
Liquid Aerosol
Colloidal suspension of liquid in gas.
Molecular Orbital
An orbit resulting from overlap and mixing of atomic orbitals on different atoms. An MO belongs to the molecule as a whole.
Standard Reaction
A reaction in which the numbers of moles of reactants shown in the balanced equation, all in their standard states, are completely converted to the numbers of moles of products shown in the balanced equation, also sall at their standard state.
