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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Pesticides

im240

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

A high-tech, transient dynamometer automobile emissions test that takes up to 240 seconds.

imhoff cone

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

A clear, cone-shaped container used to measure the volume of settleable solids in a specific volume of water.

Immediately Dangerous to Life and Health (IDLH)

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

The maximum level to which a healthy individual can be exposed to a chemical for 30 minutes and escape without suffering irreversible health effects or impairing symptoms. Used as a "level of ...

One that would likely result in unreasonable adverse effects on humans or the environment or risk unreasonable hazard to an endangered species during the time required for a pesticide registration ...

imminent threat

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

A high probability that exposure is occurring.

immiscibility

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

The inability of two or more substances or liquids to readily dissolve into one another, such as soil and water. Immiscibility The inability of two or more substances or liquids to readily dissolve ...