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The Environmental Glossary. Letter O +++ Popular Articles: 'Observation', 'Objective', 'Oxygen'

An Open-circuit voltage is abbreviated Voc, refers to a PV device's voltage potential when it is providing no current.

The term opisthosoma refers to the posterior part of the body in some arthropods, particularly in members of the class Arachnida, which includes spiders, scorpions, and similar creatures. This segment of the body is distinct from the prosoma, or the front part of the body, which typically houses the head and legs.

An Oral Exposure: is Eating and drinking food and water (and pollutants), and their entry into the digestive tract.

An ordination analysis is a set of techniques in which sampling units are arranged in relation to one or more coordinate axes such that their relative positions to the axes and to each other provide maximum information about their ecological similarities.

An Ore is Mineral deposit containing a high enough Concentration of at least one metallic Element to permit the metal to be extracted and sold at a profit.

An Organic compound is Molecule that contains Atoms of the Element carbon, usually combined with itself and with Atoms of one or more other Element such as hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen,

An ORGANIC COMPOUNDS is Chemicals that contain carbon. Volatile Organic Compounds23 vaporize at room

Organic Contaminants are Carbon -based chemicals, such as solvents and pesticides, which can get into water through runoff from cropland or Discharge from factories.

Deutsch: Ökologischer Landbau / Español: Agricultura orgánica / Português: Agricultura orgânica / Français: Agriculture biologique / Italiano: Agricoltura biologica

Organic farming in the environmental context refers to an agricultural system that seeks to provide fresh, healthy, and environmentally sustainable food by following practices that are designed to minimize harm to the environment. This method of farming emphasizes the use of natural processes and materials to enhance ecological balance and biodiversity, avoiding most synthetic pesticides, fertilizers, genetically modified organisms (GMOs), antibiotics, and growth hormones.

An Organic fertilizer is Organic material such as Manure or compost, applied to cropland as a source of plant nutrients.