| 单词 | acid drainage |
| 释义 | > as lemmasacid drainage acid drainage n. acidic effluent or run-off; spec. (also more fully acid mine drainage) the outflow of acid water from an area of oxidizable rock exposed to the air as a consequence of mining. ΚΠ 1879 R. S. Tracy in A. H. Buck Treat. Hygiene & Public Health II. 447 The acid drainage of other factories should not be discharged into the same sewer with the ammoniacal liquor. 1949 W. C. Allee et al. Princ. Animal Ecol. xi. 173/2 Pools and streams with acidities as high as pH 1.8 produced by acid drainage from mines. 1977 Amer. Jrnl. Agric. Econ. 59 1073/2 Some aquifers may be destroyed by mining, others polluted by acid mine drainage, usually beginning through the groundwater. 2005 J. Diamond Collapse (2006) xv. 455 It is..necessary to cover and revegetate all areas that could be sources of acid drainage. < as lemmas |
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