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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lipid solubility

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

The maximum concentration of a chemical that will dissolve in fatty substances. Lipid soluble substances are insoluble in water. They will very selectively disperse through the environment via uptake ...

liquefaction

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

Changing a solid into a liquid.

liquid injection incinerator

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

Commonly used system that relies on high pressure to prepare liquid wastes for incineration by breaking them up into tiny droplets to allow easier combustion.

listed waste

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

Wastes listed as hazardous under RCRA but which have not been subjected to the Toxic Characteristics Listing Process because the dangers they present are considered self-evident.

lithology

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

Mineralogy, grain size, texture, and other physical properties of granular soil, sediment, or rock.

litter

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

1. The highly visible portion of solid waste carelessly discarded outside the regular garbage and trash collection and disposal system. 2. leaves and twigs fallen from forest trees.

littoral zone

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

1. That portion of a body of fresh water extending from the shoreline lakeward to the limit of occupancy of rooted plants. 2. A strip of land along the shoreline between the high and low water ...