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It is typically used to describe something that is moving or spreading in a downstream direction, often in relation to a body of water. For example: - The pollution from the factory spread downstream, causing harm to the river's ecosystem. - As the snow melted, the debris was carried by the current and spread downstream. - The news of the company's bankruptcy quickly spread downstream to its investors and clients.
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Colorado and New Mexico made disaster declarations for stretches of the Animas and San Juan rivers and the Navajo Nation declared an emergency as the toxic waste spread downstream toward Lake Powell in Utah.
In public passenger transit systems, congestion can also spread downstream amongst passengers, through vehicles, i.e. act remotely.
Damages may not be limited to aquatic life forms, but may spread downstream to agricultural land, aquaculture farms or bring harm to whoever utilise the water resources.
The creek is a tributary of the Kalamazoo River, and the oil spread downstream for 38 miles.
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In addition, a delay generated upstream on a vehicle spreads downstream, itself becoming a factor of congestion.
Such a motion has been recently observed in an adiabatic Pt/Al2O3 bed catalyzing ethylene oxidation: fronts produced by an extinction at the inlet always travel downstream and exit and the reactor while a hot spot develops at the inlet and spreads downstream by increasing the temperature to the ignition point.
Loss of Mael instead led to only a modest reduction at the insertion site but resulted in increased H3K9me3 spreading downstream of it.
High myoplasmic Na+ diffusivity permits a locally activated influx of Na+ into an acidic region of the cell to spread rapidly downstream, and facilitate the stimulation of SR Ca2+ loading and subsequent release in non-acidic regions, thus promoting a more global CaT response.
The model covers the entire fluid region including the impinging jet on a flat circular disk and flow spreading out downstream under the spinning confinement plate and free surface flow after exposure to the ambient gaseous medium.
Swi6 is a fission yeast homolog of mammalian heterochromatin protein HP1 that is involved in heterochromatin spreading [42] [45] downstream of RNAi-mediated heterochromatin formation involving Dcr1.
Alzheimer's disease provides a disease model with which to test these issues, as neurofibrillary pathology associated with cognitive dysfunction begins in the medial perirhinal cortex ('transentorhinal cortex') before spreading to downstream anterior medial temporal lobe structures and on to the rest of the cortex (Braak and Braak, 1991; Taylor and Probst, 2008).
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