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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Carbon Monoxide (CO)

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

A colorless, odorless, poisonous gas produced by incomplete fossil fuel combustion.

carbon adsorption

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

A treatment system that removes contaminants from ground water or surface water by forcing it through tanks containing activated carbon treated to attract the contaminants.

Carbon Tetrachloride (CC14)

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

Compound consisting of one carbon atom ad four chlorine atoms, once widely used as a industrial raw material, as a solvent, and in the production of CFCs. Use as a solvent ended when it was ...

carboxyhemoglobin

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

Hemoglobin in which the iron is bound to carbon monoxide(CO) instead of oxygen.

carcinogen

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

Capable of causing cancer. A suspected carcinogen is a substance that may cause cancer in humans or animals but for which the evidence is not conclusive.

carrying capacity

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

1. In recreation management, the amount of use a recreation area can sustain without loss of quality. 2. In wildlife management, the maximum number of animals an area can support during a given ...

case study

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

A brief fact sheet providing risk, cost, and performance information on alternative methods and other pollution prevention ideas, compliance initiatives, voluntary efforts, etc.