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habitat
Place where an organism or population (human, animal, plant, micro-organism) lives.
Source : Environment
Source Detail : Compendium of Enviroment Statistics
hazardous wastes
Wastes that, owing to their toxic, infectious, radioactive or flammable properties pose a substantial actual or potential hazard to the health of humans and other living organisms and the environment.
Source : Environment
Source Detail : Compendium of Enviroment Statistics
heavy metals
Potentially toxic metals used in industrial processes, for example, arsenic, chromium, copper, lead, mercury, nickel and zinc. They may damage plant and animal life at low concentrations and tend to accumulate in the food chain
Source : Environment
Source Detail : Compendium of Enviroment Statistics
hectare
metric unit of area defined as 10,000 square metres (100 m by 100 m), and primarily used in the measurement of land
Source : Others
Source Detail : Wikipedia
holding gains
Positive or negative holding gains may accrue during the accounting period to the owners of financial and non-financial assets and liabilities as a result of a change in their prices (holding gains are sometimes referred to as "capital gains").
Source : National Accounts
Source Detail : Gross Domestics Product (GDP)
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