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Whiting events

Term · Agriculture and food · MLC-T-AGR-006809

Sudden, large-scale precipitation of fine-grained calcium carbonate and other organic compounds that gives a milky appearance to the water body. It could be due to photosynthetic activity of certain marine microbes or due to change in the water temperature.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-AGR-006809
FieldAgriculture and food
SubjectFields of Study
ReferencesNAL Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary (CC BY 4.0)
See alsoChemical precipitation; Biomineralization; Calcite; Calcium carbonate; Water quality; Water pollution; Algal blooms; Water temperature
TranslationsSpanish: fenómenos blancos
Record as JSON
{
  "id": "MLC-T-AGR-006809",
  "term": "Whiting events",
  "field": "Agriculture and food",
  "definition": "Sudden, large-scale precipitation of fine-grained calcium carbonate and other organic compounds that gives a milky appearance to the water body. It could be due to photosynthetic activity of certain marine microbes or due to change in the water temperature.",
  "subject": "Fields of Study",
  "see_also": [
    "chemical precipitation",
    "biomineralization",
    "calcite",
    "calcium carbonate",
    "water quality",
    "water pollution",
    "algal blooms",
    "water temperature"
  ],
  "references": [
    "NAL Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary"
  ],
  "translations": {
    "es": "fenómenos blancos"
  },
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/agriculture/whiting-events/"
}

Record 6,701 of 6,798 in Agriculture and food terminology (MLC-0114). Request the full dataset.