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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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ground-penetrating radar
Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides
A geophysical method that uses high frequency electromagnetic waves to obtain subsurface information.
ground-water discharge
Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides
Ground water entering near coastal waters which has been contaminated by landfill leachate, deep well injection of hazardous wastes, septic tanks, etc.
ground-water disinfection rule
Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides
A 1996 amendment of the Safe Drinking Water Act requiring EPA to promulgate national primary drinking water regulations requiring disinfection as for all public water systems, ...
gully erosion
Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides
Severe erosion in which trenches are cut to a depth greater than 30 centimeters (a foot). Generally, ditches deep enough to cross with farm equipment are considered gullies.
habitat
Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides
The place where a population (e.g. human, animal, plant, microorganism) lives and its surroundings, both living and non-living.
habitat indicator
Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides
A physical attribute of the environment measured to characterize conditions necessary to support an organism, population, or community in the absence of pollutants; e.g. salinity ...
half-life
Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides
1. The time required for a pollutant to lose one-half of its original coconcentrationor example, the biochemical half-life of DDT in the environment is 15 years. 2. The time ...
Sub-categories
- Fungicides (58)
- Herbicides (125)
- Insecticides (20)
- Nitrogen fertilizers (16)
- Organic fertilizers (43)
- Pesticides (35135)
- Potassium fertilizers (300)
- Urea (21)