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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Coke oven

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

An industrial process which converts coal into coke, one of the basic materials used in blast furnaces for the conversion of iron ore into iron.

A standard for automobile emissions of carbon monoxide (CO) emissions to be met at a low temperature (i.e. 20 degrees Fahrenheit). Conventional automobile catalytic converters are not efficient in ...

Coliform index

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

A rating of the purity of water based on a count of faecal bacteria.

Coliform organism

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

Microorganisms found in the intestinal tract of humans and animals. Their presence in water indicates faecal pollution and potentially adverse contamination by pathogens.

Collector

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

Public or private hauler that collects nonhazardous waste and recyclable materials from residential, commercial, institutional and industrial sources. (See: hauler.)

Collector sewers

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

Pipes used to collect and carry wastewater from individual sources to an interceptor sewer that will carry it to a treatment facility.

Colloids

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

Very small, finely divided solids (that do not dissolve) that remain dispersed in a liquid for a long time due to their small size and electrical charge.