Glossary of
Chemistry &
Environmental
Protection: terms & abbreviations
Dutch-English,
French-English,
German-English
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bac à marée = (specifically
located
onshore, not floating, and specifically for flotsam, not general waste)
flotsam recycling bin; tidal waste bin; marine debris bin / bac
à retention =
sink (lab.)
/ bain marie
= water
bath (chem./tech.)
/ BAL
= British antilewisite (dimercaprol,
a metal complexing agent) / Baltic
Sea Network on Occupational
Health and Safety / Basel
Convention on the Control of
Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal
(1989) / BASF = Badische
Anilin- und Soda-Fabrik AG (D)
(founded 1865)
/ Basle
Convention see
Basel Convention / Basler
Übereinkommen
über die Kontrolle der grenzüberschreitenden
Verbringung gefährlicher
Abfälle und ihrer Entsorgung
see Basel Convention
/ bassin
d’infiltration =
infiltration basin (hydrol.)
/
bassin versant
= catchment basin; drainage basin (hydrol.)
/ BAT
= 1. best available technique;
2. best available technology / BATNEEC
= best available technique not entailing excessive cost (UK)
/ Bauschutt
= demolition waste
/ BBT best bestaande techniek
see BAT
/ BCD
=
base-catalysed dechlorination / BCF
= bioconcentration factor /
BCSD
= Business Council for Sustainable Development / Becherglas
= glass beaker (lab.)
/ BEI
= back scattered electron
imaging / benomyl
(pest.)
/ BEPO
= best
environmental practical option / Beseitigung
= disposal (waste)
/ Bestimmungsgrenze
= limit of quantitation, see LOQ
and cf. Nachweisgrenze)
(tox.)
/ betazone
(pest.)
/ benzalkonium
chloride (pharm.:
throat lozenges)
/ in bewerking
nemen = to extract (HPLC
sample; source unconfirmed / BFB
= bubbling fluidised bed (waste
combustion) / BHA
=
butylated hydroxyanisole / BHC
= benzene hexachloride /
BHK
= baby hamster kidney (cell
culture) / Bhopal
see MIC
/ bidestilliertes Wasser
=
double-distilled water / BIM =
Bedrijsinterne Milieuzorg (NL)
= (suggest)
In-house
Environmental Protection (Measures) (for
the ... sector) / BImSchG
= Bundesimmissionsgesetz (D)
=
Federal Immission Control Act (NB
this is the "official" name
used; equivalent for all intents and purposes to a clean air act)
/
BImSchV =
Bundesimmissionsverordnung (D)
= Federal Immission Control Ordinance / biodisponibilité
=
bioavailability / Bioabfall;
Biomüll = organic waste
/ Biomiete
see
biopile / biopile
(defined):
Facility
for the controlled biodegradation of pollutant wastes or spills,
promoted by
aeration or the introduction of nutrients. Material is piled up within
an
impermeable liner (biopile)
or arranged in layers (biocell).
Technique is called "biopiling". / biotertre
= biopile (or
biocell – French does not seem to differentiate),
see biopile
/ Biotonne
= organic waste bin; green waste bin /
biphasique
= 2-phase (oxygen)
/ bisulfure
= disulphide / BKG =
broeikasgas = greenhouse gas / blanc
réactif = test blank
/
Blauer Engel
= "Blue Angel" (D)
(eco-label)
/ Blaukreuz
= DA, Clark I,
chlorodiphenylarsine; diphenylarsenous chloride (poison
gas) / Blausäure
= cyanide gas / blauwzuur
see Blausäure
/ bleekaarde;
Bleicherde = Fuller's earth / BLO
= black liquor oxidation
/ blow
see cannabis /
BMC
(syn. MBC)
=
methyl benzimidazole 2 yl carbamate (the
fungicide carbendazim)
/ BMU = Bundesministerium
für Umwelt (D)
= Federal Ministry for the Environment / BNA
=
beta-naphthylamine / BOD
= biological oxygen demand / Bodenschutz
= soil conservation / technologie en bout
de chaîne see
additiver
Umweltschutz
/ BP
= 1. benzo[a]pyrene (a
major PNC);
2. British Petroleum / BPEO =
Best Practicable Environmental
Option (UK)
/ BPM
= best
practicable means / BREF
= best available reference documents (OECD) / Breitbandantibiotikum
= broad-spectrum
antibiotic / brennbarer
Stoff = flammable
substance (substance
in the form of gas, vapour, solid, or mixtures of these, able to
undergo an
exothermic reaction with air when ignited)
(explosive
atmospheres standard EN 1127-1)
/ bromopropylate
(pest.)
/ bromoxynil
(pest.)
/ bromure
= bromide / formule brute =
?
molecular
formula / BSB = Biologischer
Sauerstoffbedarf = biological
oxygen demand (BOD) / BSO =
buthionine sulphoximine / BSP
= bromsulphalein / BTPS
=
body temperature and pressure, saturated with water vapour / BTX
= benzene, toluene, xylene / BUT
= best uitvoerbare techniek see
BMP / buturon
(pest.)
/ bvo =
bodemverontreiniging = soil
contamination; ground pollution
Created
by Alison Gaunt
Last updated 20 March 2018
