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☆ thermal pollution

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

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it is an process of mixing the heated liquid from the industrys and water that mix with an river which are consumed by all the aquatic animals in the ecosystem is called an thermal pollution

Posted by arun 111 days ago.

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