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

Dimictic

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

Lakes and reservoirs that freeze over and normally go through two stratifications and two mixing cycles a year.

Dinocap

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

A fungicide used primarily by apple growers to control summer diseases. EPA proposed restrictions on its use in 1986 when laboratory tests found it caused birth defects in rabbits.

Dinoseb

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

A herbicide that is also used as a fungicide and insecticide. It was banned by EPA in 1986 because it posed the risk of birth defects and sterility.

Dioxin

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

Any of a family of compounds known chemically as dibenzo-p-dioxins. Concern about them arises from their potential toxicity as contaminants in commercial products. Tests on laboratory animals ...

Direct discharger

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

A municipal or industrial facility which introduces pollution through a defined conveyance or system such as outlet pipes; a point source.

Direct filtration

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

A method of treating water which consists of the addition of coagulent chemicals, flash mixing, coagulation, minimal flocculation, and filtration. Sedimentation is not uses.

Direct push

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

Technology used for performing subsurface investigations by driving, pushing, and/or vibrating small-diameter hollow steel rods into the ground/ Also known as direct drive, drive point, or push ...