Pesticides

Pesticides

Any chemical or substance used to kill or inhibit the growth of pests that damage or interfere with the growth of crops, shrubs, tress, timber and other vegetation useful to humans.

Industry: Agricultural chemicals

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air pollution

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

The presence of contaminants or pollutant substances in the air that interfere with human health or welfare, or produce other harmful environmental effects.

air pollution control device

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

Mechanism or equipment that cleans emissions generated by a source (e.g. an incinerator, industrial smokestack, or an automobile exhaust system) by removing pollutants that would otherwise be ...

air pollution episode

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

A period of abnormally high concentration of air pollutants, often due to low winds and temperature inversion, that can cause illness and death. (See: episode, pollution.)

air quality criteria

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

The levels of pollution and lengths of exposure above which adverse health and welfare effects may occur.

air quality standards

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

The level of pollutants prescribed by regulations that are not be exceeded during a given time in a defined area.

air sparging

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

Injecting air or oxygen into an aquifer to strip or flush volatile contaminants as air bubbles up through The ground water and is captured by a vapor extraction system.

air stripping

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

A treatment system that removes volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from contaminated ground water or surface water by forcing an airstream through the water and causing the compounds to evaporate.