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.

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Habitat indicator

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

A physical attribute of the environment measured to characterise conditions necessary to support an organism, population, or community in the absence of pollutants; e.g. salinity of estuarine waters ...

Half-life

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

1. The time required for a pollutant to lose one-half of its original coconcentrationor example, the biochemical half-life of DDT in the environment is 15 years. 2. The time required for half of the ...

Halogen

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

A type of incandescent lamp with higher energy-efficiency that standard ones.

Halon

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

Bromine-containing compounds with long atmospheric lifetimes whose breakdown in the stratosphere causes depletion of ozone. Halons are used in firefighting.