Deposition

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-007667",
  "term": "Deposition",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "1. The lying, placing, or throwing down of any material.\n\n2. When chemicals like acids or bases fall to the Earth's surface. Deposition can be wet (wet deposition, such as rain or cloud fog), as well as particle and gas deposition (dry deposition).\n\n3. The removal of airborne substances to available surfaces that occurs as a result of gravitational settling and diffusion, as well as electrophoresis and thermophoresis.\n\n4. The laying, placing, or throwing down of any material; typically refers to sediment.\n\n5. The process of flowing water redepositing transported material such as sediment particles.\n\n6. Laying, placing, or throwing down of any material; typically refers to sediment.\n\n7. The accumulation of material dropped because of a slackening movement of the transporting medium, e.g., water or wind.\n\n8. The accumulation of material left in a new position by a natural transporting agent such as water, wind, ice, or gravity, or by the activity of man.",
  "subject": "Water",
  "references": [
    "Waste and Cleanup Risk Assessment Glossary",
    "Acid Rain Glossary",
    "Exposure Factors Handbook: Glossary",
    "Coastal Sensitivity to Sea-level Rise Glossary and Acronyms",
    "USDA Agricultural Research Service Engineered Information Systems for Natural Resources Glossary",
    "Coastal Sensitivity Glossary",
    "NSTEPS Online Glossary; N-STEPS Online Glossary of Terms",
    "NPS Agriculture Glossary; Nonpoint Pollution Source from Agriculture Glossary"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/deposition/"
}