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... > Health Occupations > Medicine > Public Health > Public Health Practice > Communicable Disease Control > Sanitation > Sanitary Engineering > Waste Management > Refuse Disposal > Incineration
... > Environment and Public Health > Public Health > Public Health Practice > Communicable Disease Control > Sanitation > Sanitary Engineering > Waste Management > Refuse Disposal > Incineration
... > Population Characteristics > Health > Public Health > Public Health Practice > Communicable Disease Control > Sanitation > Sanitary Engineering > Waste Management > Refuse Disposal > Incineration
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Incineration  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Destructions, Thermal
  • Destruction, Thermal
  • Thermal Destruction
  • Thermal Destructions

Note

  • restrict to waste disposal

Scope note

  • High temperature destruction of waste by burning with subsequent reduction to ashes or conversion to an inert mass.

History note

  • 94

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D017745

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