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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In situ

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

In its original place; unmoved unexcavated; remaining at the site or in the subsurface.

Fresh water

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

Water that generally contains less than 1,000 milligrams-per-liter of dissolved solids.

Friable

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

Capable of being crumbled, pulverized, or reduced to powder by hand pressure.

Any material containing more than one-percent asbestos, and that can be crumbled or reduced to powder by hand pressure. (May include previously non-friable material which becomes broken or damaged by ...

Fuel economy standard

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

The Corporate Average Fuel Economy Standard (CAFE) effective in 1978. It enhanced the national fuel conservation effort imposing a miles-per-gallon floor for motor vehicles.

Fuel efficiency

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

The proportion of energy released by fuel combustion that is converted into useful energy.

Fuel switching

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

1. A precombustion process whereby a low-sulfur coal is used in place of a higher sulphur coal in a power plant to reduce sulphur dioxide emissions. 2. Illegally using leaded gasoline in a motor ...