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fumigant

NOUN
  1. a chemical substance used in fumigation

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  • It acts as a biofumigant and drives away wireworms. The Sun
  • This book provides such documentation and should serve as a benchmark for researchers involved in fumigant measurement for years to come.
  • But one such fumigant, methyl bromide, is scheduled for complete phaseout by 2005 because of environmental concerns.
  • But if that wasn't enough, now the California Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) is about to approve yet another dangerous chemical to be used as a soil fumigant for strawberry crops: methyl iodide. Ana Joanes: Cancer-free Strawberries Please!
  • This greenhouse study evaluated the biofumigant effects of crushed seed meal from brown mustard and field pennycress.
  • Much credit for mustard's biofumigant effect against soilborne pests is given to isothiocyanates, chemical byproducts of the plants' decomposition.
  • Phosphine has been used worldwide as an insecticidal fumigant for stored grains since the 1930s because it is relatively inexpensive, easy to apply, and essentially residue free.
  • DE is a possible alternative to methyl bromide, an ozone-depleting fumigant scheduled for phaseout by 2005.
  • They found the risk of MGUS was 5.6 times higher for those who used an insecticide called dieldrin; 3.9 times higher for those who used the fumigant mixture carbon-tetrachloride/carbon disulfide, and 2.4 times higher for those who used a fungicide called chlorothalonil. Undefined
  • The test in this case was with a soil fumigant called chloropicrin. AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed
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