APES Vocab Flashcards
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| 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 |