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

Fungus (Fungi)

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

Molds, mildews, yeasts, mushrooms, and puffballs, a group of organisms lacking in chlorophyll (i.e. are not photosynthetic) and which are usually non-mobile, filamentous, and multicellular. Some grow ...

furrow irrigation

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

Irrigation method in which water travels through the field by means of small channels between each groups of rows.

future liability

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

Refers to potentially responsible parties' obligations to pay for additional response activities beyond those specified in the Record of Decision or Consent Decree.

game fish

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

Species like trout, salmon, or bass, caught for sport. Many of them show more sensitivity to environmental change than "rough" fish.

garbage

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

Food waste (animal and vegetable) resulting from the handling, storage, packaging, sale, preparation, cooking, and serving of foods.

gas chromatograph/mass spectrometer

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

Instrument that identifies the molecular composition and concentrations of various chemicals in water and soil samples.

gasahol

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

Mixture of gasoline and ethanol derived from fermented agricultural products containing at least nine percent ethanol. Gasohol emissions contain less carbon monoxide than those from gasoline.