The undesirable overgrowth of vegetation caused by high concentrates of plant nutrients in bodies of water.
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Electrochemistry
Study of chemical changes produced by electrical current and the production of electricity by chemical reactions.
Electrode Potentials
Potentials, E, of half-reactions as reductions versus the standard hydrogen electrode.
Electrodes
Surfaces upon which oxidation and reduction half-reactions, occur in electrochemical cells.
Pauli Exclusion Principle
No two electrons in the same atom may have identical sets of four quantum numbers.
Contact Process
Industrial process by which sulfur trioxide and sulfuric acid are produced from sulfur dioxide.
Curie (Ci)
The basic unit used to describe the intensity of radioactivity in a sample of material. One curie equals 37 billion disintegrations per second or approximately the amount of radioactivty given off by 1 gram of radium.
Alkali Metals
Metals of Group IA (Na, K, Rb).
Electrolysis
Process that occurs in electrolytic cells.
Clay
A class of silicate and aluminosilicate minerals with sheet-like structures that have enormous surface areas that can absorb large amounts of water.
Mass
A measure of the amount of matter in an object. Mass is usually measured in grams or kilograms.
