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conservation lawor law of conservationIn physics, the principle that certain quantities within an isolated system do not change over time. When a substance in an isolated system changes phase, the total amount of mass does not change. When energy is changed from one form to another in an isolated system, there is no change in the total amount of energy. When a transfer of momentum occurs in an isolated system, the total amount of momentum is conserved. The same is true for electric charge in a system: charge lost by one particle is gained by another. Conservation laws make it possible to predict the macroscopic behaviour of a system without having to consider the microscopic details of a physical process or chemical reaction. conservation law [‚kän·sər′vā·shən ‚lȯ] (physics) A law which states that some physical quantity associated with an isolated system is constant. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Electric power generators shut down or switch to oil or coal when gas prices rise, so if we want to displace those fuels, we need more natural gas" says Christopher D'Ovidio, a staff attorney with the Conservation Law Foundation (CLF), which is active in LNG siting debates in New England. ``They are using a time of insecurity and time of war to take down 30 years of conservation law,'' said Daniel Patterson, a biologist with the Center for Biological Diversity, which has sued the federal government repeatedly to enforce environmental laws. A part of the bill amends the Environmental Conservation Law to require the owner or operator of a facility that stores 1,000 or more tires to provide financial assurance to cover the cost of facility closure once maximum capacity has been reached, in a form and amount acceptable to the Department of Environmental Conservation, before DEC may issue a permit to operate the facility. |
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