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Thermal Pollution

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Noun

1. thermal pollution

harm to lakes and rivers resulting from the release of excessive waste heat into them

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Thermal Pollution

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the discharge of heated liquid or air into lakes, rivers, etc., as by an industry or nuclear power plant, causing such a rise in the water temperature as to affect the life cycles within the water and disrupt the ecological balance

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Thermal Pollution

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n.
Industrial discharge of heated water into a river, lake, or other body of water, causing a rise in temperature that endangers aquatic life.

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