9763079599 | Hydrogen fuel cell | A device that produces electricity by combining a fuel, usually hydrogen, with oxygen | ![]() | 0 |
9763079600 | Light-Water nuclear reactor | A thermal-neutron reactor that uses normal water, as opposed to heavy water, as both its coolant and neutron moderator | ![]() | 1 |
9763079601 | Lignite | Soft brownish coal showing traces of plant structure, intermediate between bituminous coal and peat. | ![]() | 2 |
9763079602 | Liquified natural gas (LNG) | A composition of methane and some mixture of ethane used to convert natural gas to liquid form for ease and safety of storage transport. | ![]() | 3 |
9763079603 | Mineral | A solid Inorganic substance of natural occurrence. | ![]() | 4 |
9763079604 | Moderator | the media in which the nuclear fission reaction in a nuclear reactor takes place (water or graphite). Slows down neutrons. | ![]() | 5 |
9763079605 | Mountaintop removal | Any method of surface coal mining that destroys a mountaintop or ridgeline. | ![]() | 6 |
9763079606 | Multi-paned windows | A window that is divided into sections known as panes | ![]() | 7 |
9763079607 | Natural gas | flammable gas, consisting largely of methane and other hydrocarbons, occurring naturally underground (often in association with petroleum) and used as fuel. | ![]() | 8 |
9763079608 | Nuclear fusion | a nuclear reaction in which atomic nuclei of low atomic number fuse to form a heavier nucleus with the release of energy. | ![]() | 9 |
9763079609 | Oil refinery | an industrial process plant where crude oil is transformed and refined into more useful products such as petroleum naphtha, gasoline, and diesel fuel. | ![]() | 10 |
9763079610 | leachate | water that has percolated through a solid and leached out some of the constituents. | ![]() | 11 |
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