Pollutants escape from improperly designed landfills in all of the following ways except

A. dissolved in leachate infiltrating into soil below.
B. as gases rising through overlying soil.
C. through uptake in plants growing on the site.
D. rodents burrowing into the landfill for shelter.


Answer: D

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________ is the spontaneous nuclear change of isotopes with unstable nuclei.

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