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Nesslerize
To treat or test as a liquid with a solution of mercuric iodide in potassium iodide and potassium hydroxide which is called Nesslers solution or Nesslers test and is used to detect the presence of ammonia...
net worth method
net worth method : a method used by the Internal Revenue Service to detect and calculate tax evasion in which the change in a taxpayer's net worth is compared to reported taxable income taking into account living expenses, allowable deductions and exemptions, and nontaxable income ...
department of justice (doj)
department of justice (doj) An executive department of the federal government, headed by the Attorney General. Seeks to enforce, investigate and detect violation of federal laws. Source: FindLaw ...
counter subversion
the aspect of counterintelligence designed to detect and prevent subversive activities...
counter sabotage
counterintelligence designed to detect and counteract sabotage...
Melanoscope
An instrument containing a combination of colored glasses such that they transmit only red light so that objects of other colors as green leaves appear black when seen through it It is used for viewing colored flames to detect the presence of potassium lithium etc by the red light which they emit...
Pre-natal diagnostic test
Pre-natal diagnostic test, means ultrasonography or any test or analysis of amniotic fluid, chorionic villi, blood or any tissue of a pregnant woman conducted to detect genetic or metabolic disorders or chromosomal abnormalities or congenital anomalies or haemoglobinopathies or sex-linked disease. [Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Technique (Prohibition of Sex Selection) Act, 1994 (57 of 1994), s. 2 (k)]...
Nuisance
Nuisance [fr. nuire, Fr., to hurt], something noxious of offensive. Any unauthorised act which, without direct physical interference, materially impairs the use and enjoyment by another of his property, or prejudicially affects his health, comfort, or convenience, is a nuisance.Nuisance may be distinguished from negligence in that nuisance is an act or omission causing injury, the injury itself giving rise to an action for damages, while a person suffering from damage due to negligence must prove that the damage was caused by some want of care, according to its degree which was required in the particular circumstances of the case. Actions against persons or public undertakings for damage under statutory powers are generally founded on negligence. Where the actual method of exercising the power creating a nuisance is indicated by the statute negligence in the authorised method may be actionable. The onus appears to be on a defendant pleading that the nuisance was inevitable and compulso...
Land-reeve
Land-reeve, a person whose business is to overlook certain parts of a farm or estate; to attend not only to the woods and hedge-timber, but also to the state of the fences, gates, buildings, private roads, drift-ways, and water-courses; and likewise to the stocking of commons, and encroachment of every kind, as well as to prevent or detect waste, and spoil in general, whether by the tenants or others; and to report the same to the manager or land-steward.Means a person charged with (1) overseeing certain parts of a farm or estate (2) attending to the timber, fences, gates, buildings, private roads, and water-courses, (3) stocking the commons, (4) watering for encroachments of all kinds, (5) preventing and detecting waste and spoliation by tenants and others, and (6) reporting on findings to the manger or land steward, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 884....
Reagent
A substance capable of producing with another a reaction especially when employed to detect the presence of other bodies a test...
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