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thermal pollution

Thermal pollution is the harmful release of heated liquid into a body of water or heat released into the air as a waste product of a business.

(noun)

An example of thermal pollution is water used for cooling in a power plant that runs into a nearby river and harms the river's ecosystem.

See thermal pollution in Webster's New World College Dictionary

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the discharge of heated liquid or air into lakes, rivers, etc., as by an industry or nuclear power plant, causing such a rise in the water temperature as to affect the life cycles within the water and disrupt the ecological balance

See thermal pollution in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

Industrial discharge of heated water into a river, lake, or other body of water, causing a rise in temperature that endangers aquatic life.

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