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| Domain | Definition |
Energy | A group of organic compounds usedin the manufacture of plastics and formerly used as a coolant in electrictransformers. In the environment, PCBs are highly toxic to aquatic life. They persistin the environment for long periods of time and are biologically accumulative. (POLYCHLORONATED BIPHENYLS). (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: PCBS |
| Specialty definitions using "PCBS": plasma incinerator, polychlorinated biphenyls, printed circuit board ♦ used PCB. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
Synonym: PCBSSynonym: Polychlorinated biphenyls. (additional references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | From Fairhaven, a view of New Bedford and the Aerovox facility, one of the contamination sources of PCBs. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
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Business | The chief pollutants were petroleum substances, chlorinated hydrocarbons, PCBs and toxic metals. (references) | |
The main waste management methods available for destruction of PCBs include high temperature incineration, chemical dechlorination, solvent extraction, and wet air oxidation and electrochemical techniques. (references) | ||
Sales of PCB for use in non-electrical applications ended in 1972, and although PCB has been progressively restricted since the 1970s, PCBs that remain in currently installed equipment pose a continuing environmental threat. (references) | ||
Economic History | West Bank | Statistical trade data is imprecise due to the nature of the Israeli-Palestinian border, but clearly a large -- and growing -- WB/G trade deficit exists, one estimated by the respected Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) at nearly 50% of GDP in 1997. PCBS estimates that WB/G merchandise exports declined from a peak of $403 million in 1981 to $381 million in 1997. With 1997 imports climbing to $2.164 billion, this leaves a trade deficit of $1.783 billion. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "PCBS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 88.14% of the time. "PCBS" is used about 118 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 88.14% | 104 | 31,955 |
| Noun (proper) | 11.02% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 0.85% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 118 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
pcbs | 166 |
hudson river pcbs | 4 |
pcbs environment | 3 |
single sided pcbs | 3 |
gold pcbs plating | 3 |
biphenyls level pcbs polychlorinated | 2 |
bioremediation compost pcbs using | 2 |
fanuc pcbs | 2 |
fish in pcbs | 2 |
board circuit manufacturing pcbs printed | 2 |
e pcbs protein | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words containing the letters "b-c-p-s" | |
+2 letters: becaps, biceps. | |
+3 letters: backups, beclasp, biopics, biopsic, bipacks, hubcaps, mobcaps, phobics, publics. | |
+4 letters: backslap, backspin, backstop, beclasps, bicepses, bicuspid, biochips, bioscope, bioscopy, biphasic, bluecaps, copaibas, copyboys, paybacks, pedicabs, pibrochs, placebos, saprobic, snapback, subepoch, suboptic, subpubic, subspace, subtopic, upclimbs. | |
+5 letters: backdrops, backpacks, backslaps, backspace, backspins, backstops, backswept, backwraps, becarpets, beclasped, bicuspids, bioscopes, bishopric, blackcaps, blacktops, borescope, capablest, capybaras, chapbooks, copublish, copybooks, cupboards, humpbacks, pinchbugs, placeboes, playbacks, plowbacks, prescribe, proboscis, proscribe, pubescent, publicans, publicise, publicist, pullbacks, republics, scrapbook, snapbacks, spaceband, spicebush, subapical, subepochs, subscript, subspaces, subtopics, subtropic, superclub, sweepback. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 43 42 53 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. -.-. -... ... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01000011 01000010 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P C B S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0043 0042 0053 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)50373653 |
| 1. Synonyms 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Images: Photo Album | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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