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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modified bin method

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

Way of calculating the required heating or cooling for a building based on determining how much energy the system would use if outdoor temperatures were within a certain temperature interval and then ...

modified source

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

The enlargement of a major stationary pollutant sources is often referred to as modification, implying that more emissions will occur.

moisture content

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

1.The amount of water lost from soil upon drying to a constant weight, expressed as the weight per unit of dry soil or as the volume of water per unit bulk volume of the soil. For a fully saturated ...

molecule

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

The smallest division of a compound that still retains or exhibits all the properties of the substance.

molten salt reactor

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

A thermal treatment unit that rapidly heats waste in a heat-conducting fluid bath of carbonate salt.

monitoring well

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

A well used to take water quality samples or to measure ground water levels.

Monoclonal Antibodies (Also called MABs and MCAs)

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

1. Man-made (anthropogenic) clones of a molecule, produced in quantity for medical or research purposes. 2. Molecules of living organisms that selectively find and attach to other molecules to which ...