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CHROMATE WASTE

Chromium plating, leather tanning, wood treatment waste stream. Though water soluble, chromates are extremely irritant, and highly toxic, causing liver and kidney damage, and possibly cancer from prolonged exposure.

CHROMIUM

Element essential to the manufacture of stainless steel in alloying. It increases the corrosion resistance and hardenability of steel. When added as 12 to 20 percent by weight, together with carbon, it

CHRONIC EFFECT

Negative effects characterized by slowly developing symptoms on animal or human body. This is typically due to long, continuous exposure to low concentrations of a hazardous substance. The stopping of exposure does

CHRONIC EXPOSURE

Exposure to a hazardous substance, continuously over an extended period of 7 to 70 years. Contrast to acute exposure.

CHRONIC FAILURE

Failure occurring rather often in a system that takes just a little time to correct. Chronic failures are typically low-impact and seemingly low-cost events. However, over the life of the system, these

CHRONIC HAZARD

Substance or event, dangerous and damaging to health over a long period due to continuous or repeated exposures.

CHRONIC TOXICITY

Small. repeated doses of a substance causing long-term poisoning (toxicity). Contrast to acute toxicity.

CHRONICALLY ILL INDIVIDUAL

A person certified as lacking some physical or mental ability essential for living independently. A medical professional or social worker must makes this certification .

CHRONICLE

Recorded description of events or happenings in the order of their occurrence.

CHRONOLOGICAL FILING

Organizing and ordering documents and records in a dated sequence. This sequence can by according to their date of receipt, or date and time of their creation. The item youngest-by-date is usually

CHRONOLOGY

Document or Reference book containing a list in the order of recorded occurrence of events and happenings.

CHUNNEL

The name awarded to the tunnel connecting the UK to France. The Chunnel is 31.4 miles (50.5km) long and courses under the English Channel, It begins at Folkstone, Kent in England to

CHURN RATE

The Contrast to customer retention rate. The higher a churn rate is, the lower a customer retention rate is, and vice versa.

CICERO (CC)

Typographic measure equal to 4.51 millimeters divided into 12 Didot. It is used in mainland Europe, but not in UK, US, or elsewhere.

CIM

Document used for crossborder transport of cargo by rail. Standardized, per UN recommendations on uniform international rules and European Union (EU) applied. CIM means ‘Convention Internationale concernant le transport des Marchandises par

CIRCLE TRIP

A plane trip that end in the same place as it started but with different stops on the way and back so that it is not a round trip. For example: A

CIRCUIT BREAKER

1. In General, this is a point in a circuit that has a device that can interrupt and shut down the circuit under specific conditions, such as too much flow, heat, fire.

CIRCULAR CAUSATION

An action that is controlled or affected by its own status-change or result This is a common situation in complex systems that have several interconnected causes and effects.

CIRCULAR MERGER

Merging companies with different product offerings, increasing the market for product and service offerings to the same group of targeted customers.

CIRCULATING CAPITAL

Assets that continually flow within an organization, such as raw materials, work in process, finished goods, and cash at hand.

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