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Any economic system will produce destructive environmental impacts if the ________ within the system are not structured to avoid them.
Dioxins
Highly toxic chemical compounds that are environmental pollutants and known for their ability to persist in the environment and accumulate in the food chain.
Parts Per Million
A unit of measurement used to denote the concentration of a substance in water or air, equal to 1 part of the substance in 1,000,000 parts of the solvent.
Scatterplot
A type of graph used in statistics to display values for typically two variables for a set of data, showing how much one variable is affected by another.
Reciprocal Square Root
The mathematical operation of taking the square root of a number and then finding the reciprocal of that quantity.
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