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A Conventional Tilling is Tillage operations considered standard for a specific location and crop and that tend to bury the crop residues; usually considered as a Base for determining

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A Conveyance Loss is Water loss in pipes, channels, conduits, ditches by leakage or evaporation.

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A Cool Roofs: is the term cool roof is used to describe roofing material that has high solar reflectance. This Characteristic can reduce Heat transfer to the indoors and enhance roof

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Deutsch: Kühlung / Español: Enfriamiento / Português: Refrigeração / Français: Refroidissement / Italiano: Raffreddamento /

A Cooling system normally involve evaporating water to lower the temperature of birds, hens, pigs, etc. Generally used only for the breeding-gestation herd. Cooling also takes place by air movement in hot weather.

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- Cooling Degree Day (CDD) : A Cooling Degree Day (CDD) is
Cooling degree days are used to estimate how hot the climate is and how much energy may be needed to keep buildings cool.

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A Cooling Electricity Use is amount of electricity used to meet the building Cooling load. (See: building Cooling load.)

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A Cooling Tower is a structure that helps remove Heat from water used as a coolant; e.g., in electric power generating plants.

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A Cooling Tower Blowdown Water is Water released from a Cooling Tower to maintain proper water Mineral concentration.

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A Cooling Tower Make-Up Water is Water added to a Cooling Tower to replace water lost to Evaporation or blowdown.

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A Cooling tower makeup is Water added to the recirculating Cooling Tower water stream to compensate for water Evaporation losses (Brown and Caldwell, 1990).

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