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    concentration that can be dissolved in that medium at the given temperature. It can be measured with a dissolved oxygen probe such as an oxygen sensor or an optode...
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    Biochemical oxygen demand (also known as BOD or biological oxygen demand) is an analytical parameter representing the amount of dissolved oxygen (DO) consumed...
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  • angled-tip oxygen sensors help to provide accurate readings. The Clark-type electrode is the most used oxygen sensor for measuring oxygen dissolved in a liquid...
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    temperature, food scarcity, reduced predation pressure and increased dissolved oxygen concentrations in the deep sea. The inaccessibility of abyssal habitats...
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    Dissolved oxygen and dissolved carbon dioxide are often discussed together due their coupled role in respiration and photosynthesis. Dissolved oxygen...
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    model describes how dissolved oxygen (DO) decreases in a river or stream along a certain distance by degradation of biochemical oxygen demand (BOD). The...
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    characteristics include pH value, dissolved oxygen concentrations, biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) and chemical oxygen demand (COD), nitrogen, phosphorus...
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  • groundwater that are depleted of dissolved oxygen. The US Geological Survey defines anoxic groundwater as those with dissolved oxygen concentration of less than...
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  • Winkler test is used to determine the concentration of dissolved oxygen in water samples. Dissolved oxygen (D.O.) is widely used in water quality studies and...
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    water dissolved oxygen is important to maintaining a healthy cold-water fishery, especially for native lake trout. Mirror Lake experiences low dissolved oxygen...
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    atmosphere. An aquatic system lacking dissolved oxygen (0% saturation) is termed anaerobic, reducing, or anoxic. In water, oxygen levels are approximately 7 ppm...
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  • leaching rate. Air or pure oxygen gas can be purged through the pulp to maximize the dissolved oxygen concentration. Intimate oxygen-pulp contactors are used...
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    Total dissolved solids (TDS) is a measure of the dissolved combined content of all inorganic and organic substances present in a liquid in molecular, ionized...
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    causes algal blooms and bacterial growth, resulting in the depletion of dissolved oxygen in water and causing substantial environmental degradation. Approaches...
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    "Welcome to the Hood Canal Dissolved Oxygen Program". www.hoodcanal.washington.edu. HCDOP Goals, Hood Canal Dissolved Oxygen Program; May 24, 2004 "Puget...
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  • inorganic compounds; dissolved and particulate matter; volatile and non-volatile; reactive, and inert; hydrophilic and hydrophobic; and dissolved gases. UPW and...
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    with the water source in question include temperature, pH, dissolved oxygen, conductivity, oxygen reduction potential (ORP), turbidity, and Secchi disk depth...
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  • (organic matter) releasing oxygen in the process. A large fraction of the organic matter from photosynthesis becomes dissolved organic matter (DOM) that...
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    Oxygen is a chemical element; it has symbol O and atomic number 8. It is a member of the chalcogen group in the periodic table, a highly reactive nonmetal...
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    has an oxygen-binding capacity of 1.34 mL of O2 per gram, which increases the total blood oxygen capacity seventy-fold compared to dissolved oxygen in blood...
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    is a respiratory organ that many aquatic organisms use to extract dissolved oxygen from water and to excrete carbon dioxide. The gills of some species...
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    used for the removal of dissolved gases like oxygen from a liquid. Thermal deaerators are commonly used to remove dissolved gases in feedwater for steam-generating...
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  • that has some or all of the oxygen removed from the melt during the steelmaking process. Liquid steels contain dissolved oxygen after their conversion from...
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    that increases its ability to bind to the other three oxygen molecules. In the presence of dissolved carbon dioxide, the pH of the blood changes; this causes...
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    warmer rivers. Elevated water temperatures decrease oxygen levels (due to lower levels of dissolved oxygen, as gases are less soluble in warmer liquids), which...
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  • Thumbnail for Lajos Winkler
    today for his discovery of the Winkler method for the measurement of oxygen dissolved in water. Relatively little is in print in English concerning the life...
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    variable characteristics of estuary water are the concentration of dissolved oxygen, salinity and sediment load. There is extreme spatial variability in...
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    Positive indicators included decreased nitrogen levels and increases in dissolved oxygen. The CBF reported that as of 2022 pollution control efforts in the...
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    well. A reduction in dissolved oxygen may affect larger specimens more than smaller fish as these may be able to access oxygen richer water at the surface...
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    concentrations of singlet oxygen are reported from the reaction of triplet excited state pyruvic acid with dissolved oxygen in water. Singlet oxygen can also be produced...
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