| TRU | task-related unit; turbidity-reducing unit |
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| ANSWER | Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry/National Library of Medicine's Workstation for Emer... |
| ATSDR | Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry |
| CAN'T | LEAP cyclosporine, alcohol, nicotinic acid, thiazides, lasix, ethambutanol, aspirin, pyrazinamide [s... |
| CSA | Canadian Standards Association; canavaninosuccinic acid; carbonyl salicylamide; cell surface antigen... |
| BGS | Blood group substances |
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| EPS | Extracellular polymeric substances |
| HS | Humic substances |
| PLS | Prostaglandin-like substances |
| sulphate-reducing bacterium | <microbiology> A prokaryote which is able to reduce sulphate SO4 (as a terminal electron acceptor) using electrons donated from organic acids, fatty acids, alcohols or hydrogen (electron donors). (19 Jan 1998) |
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