What is the difference between the velocity and the discharge of a stream? What will be an ideal response?


The velocity is the rate at which the stream is moving; the discharge is the total volume of water in the
stream moving past some point in a given period of time.

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Atmospheric lead concentrations declined between 1975 and 1982 in response to

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