NET EFFECT ON THE ENVIRONMENT

Immobilized whole cells are very suitable as sensors in environmental control instruments. In multi polluted waste water it might be difficult to assess the concentrations of each of the polluting molecular species. This is of less interest. Of far greater interest is the net effect on the environment. This point can be cleared up, at least partly, by testing a small sample of the polluted water on a biosystem such as a preparation of immobilized cells. 

All systems with prescribed internal restraints will change in a fashion as to approach one and only one stable equilibrium state for each of the subsystems during processes with no net effect on the environment. The entire system is said to be in equilibrium. 

The net effect on the environment is 109 discrete sources of known environmental contamination. The soil is the medium that received most of the radioactive and hazardous waste at N Reactor through direct disposal of... 

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