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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
A crack or fracture in the Earth's crust accompanied by a displacement of one side of the fracture. Movement along the fault can cause earthquakes or, in the process of mountain-building, can release underlying magma and permit it to rise to the surface.
Industry:Natural environment
A hyperbaric steel enclosure used to treat victims of decompression sickness (the "bends") in which the air pressure is first gradually increased and then gradually decreased. This shrinks the nitrogen bubbles and allows the nitrogen to safely diffuse out of the victim's tissues.
Industry:Natural environment
A nonspecific term for small organisms that can be seen only with the aid of a microscope. The term encompasses viruses, bacteria, yeasts, molds,and protists. The term, however, is used most frequently in refererence to bacteria.
Industry:Natural environment
A single-celled structure in red algae that produces diploid carpospores on the carposporophyte.
Industry:Natural environment
A thin membrane covering the body of a gonangium, the reproductive polyp of a colonial hydrozoan.
Industry:Natural environment
An artificial, single or multilaminar vesicle, made from a lipid, that is used for the delivery of a variety of biological molecules or molecular complexes to cells, e.g., drug delivery and gene transfer. Liposomes are also used to study membranes and membrane proteins.
Industry:Natural environment
Any of a class of organic compounds in which one or more hydroxyl groups are attached to a carbon compound.
Industry:Natural environment
In meteorology, a mass of cold air moving toward a mass of warm air. Strong winds and rain typically accompany a cold front.
Industry:Natural environment
Natural decay of the nucleus of an atom where alpha or beta and/or gamma rays are released at a fixed rate.
Industry:Natural environment
Refers to the interstices or pore spaces in rock, soil, or other material subject to filling by water; fluid-filled spaces between cells in tissues.
Industry:Natural environment
