Agricultural chemicals

Agricultural chemicals

Includes chemicals designed for agricultural use for protection of crops from fungus and insects, as well as for the growth and protection of plants.

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oxidation

Pharmaceutical; Pesticides

the act of oxidizing or state of being oxidized. Chemically it consists in the increase of positive charges on an atom or the loss of negative charges. Most biological oxidations ...

monitoring

Pharmaceutical; Pesticides

the process of continually checking, observing, recording or testing the operation of some procedure. Monitoring occurs e.g. during anaesthesia or radiation.

morbidity

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

morbidity, is rate of incidence of disease, rate of frequency of disease.

mortality

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

the mortality rate; the proportion of deaths to population or to a specific number of the population.

permeability

Pharmaceutical; Pesticides

the property or state of being permeable.

necrosis

Pharmaceutical; Pesticides

the sum of the morphological changes indicative of cell death and caused by the progressive degradative action of enzymes; it may affect groups of cells or part of a structure or ...