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Recent Examples of germicide
According to a news release, Enviro-Master uses a non-toxic, non-corrosive and food-safe germicide that's dispensed from an electrostatic sprayer, basically the equivalent of a proton pack for germs.
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Slone Terranella, Detroit Free Press, 3 Dec. 2020
Slone Terranella, Detroit Free Press, 3 Dec. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for germicide
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Among them: pesticides flowing from nearby farms, heavy metals like mercury and arsenic and chemicals like PFAS (a.k.a.Erica Sloan, SELF, 10 Jan. 2025
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Sprayers are used to apply pesticides, growth regulators, and nutrients to ensure a healthy crop.Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 6 Jan. 2025
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Rodenticides and insecticides are extremely harmful if pets ingest them directly or eat affected pests.Dan Perry, Newsweek, 3 Jan. 2025
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The carcinogenic insecticide did not show up in a single unregulated product.Paige St. John, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2024
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To raise healthy plants, conventional horticulture banked on the intensive use of chemicals such as fungicides to ward off all kinds of diseases.Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Oct. 2024
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Although the dangers of fungicides are still being studied, they are linked to developmental delays in children and hormonal disruptions in adults.Todd A. Price, The Tennessean, 5 Apr. 2024
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Post-emergent herbicides can be used more selectively, but also pose environmental risks, including toxicity to birds, bees, and mammals that consume or contact them.Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 1 Jan. 2025
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Fennimore specializes in vegetables, for which there are few herbicide options, and there are fewer still for organic growers.Michelle Weber, Longreads, 7 Nov. 2024
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Testing water around Luke Air Force Base started in 2019 after the area’s water supply showed high levels of toxicants.Shawn Raymundo, The Arizona Republic, 4 June 2024
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One concern is that toxicants in the sharks’ livers can hinder production of vitellogenin, which becomes the yolk needed for egg cells.ByErik Stokstad, science.org, 19 July 2024
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The character has survived explosions, murder attempts, alcoholism, a car accident, multiple exposures to deadly toxins, stalking, a hostage crisis, and more.Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 13 Jan. 2025
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Researchers also noted an increase in lung cancer cases, but the incline was commonly attributed to other types of inhaled toxins, like automobile exhaust, tar fumes and factory smog.Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Jan. 2025
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Young southern Africans like Estância grew up not with the injustice of colonialism, but with the poisons of poverty and corruption that followed it.Ryan Lenora Brown, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Jan. 2025
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Anyone who eats death cap mushrooms may fall ill, then appear to recover, but the poison can then cause liver failure or death, officials said.Don Sweeney, Sacramento Bee, 6 Jan. 2025
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“Germicide.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/germicide. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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