Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A crystalline compound, C8H14ClN5, used as a herbicide.
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- noun organic chemistry A
triazine herbicide that inhibitsphotosynthesis
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a synthetic compound derived from triazine that is widely used as an agricultural herbicide
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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While atrazine is coming to the forefront why is a more ubiquitous poison being hidden by EPA and DEQ?
How much atrazine, from forest to faucet? (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009
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Hayes labels atrazine an "endocrine disruptor"--a novel, widely-circulated notion that exposure to certain chemicals can radically alter sexual development.
Jon Entine: Frog Day Afternoon: Choose Science Over Politics to Conserve the Endangered Amphibian Population Jon Entine 2011
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Recent media events by agenda-driven organizations such as the Natural Resources Defense Council, Land Stewardship Project and Pesticide Action Network North America suggest a coordinated campaign to call atrazine's safety into question and politicize what should be a scientific process.
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Recent media events by agenda-driven organizations such as the Natural Resources Defense Council, Land Stewardship Project and Pesticide Action Network North America suggest a coordinated campaign to call atrazine's safety into question and politicize what should be a scientific process.
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Recent media events by agenda-driven organizations such as the Natural Resources Defense Council, Land Stewardship Project and Pesticide Action Network North America suggest a coordinated campaign to call atrazine's safety into question and politicize what should be a scientific process.
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Recent media events by agenda-driven organizations such as the Natural Resources Defense Council, Land Stewardship Project and Pesticide Action Network North America suggest a coordinated campaign to call atrazine's safety into question and politicize what should be a scientific process.
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Becoming emasculated and impotent isn't a pretty fate for a male frog, but thanks to a pesticide called atrazine, it could be a common one.
ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science Ed Yong none@example.com 2010
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Recent media events by agenda-driven organizations such as the Natural Resources Defense Council, Land Stewardship Project and Pesticide Action Network North America suggest a coordinated campaign to call atrazine's safety into question and politicize what should be a scientific process.
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The Huffington Post Investigative Fund discovered that the EPA has been collecting data that shows people are drinking water laced with high levels of a weed killer known as atrazine but did not publish the data.
Democracy Now! 2009
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The Huffington Post Investigative Fund discovered that the EPA has been collecting data that shows people are drinking water laced with high levels of a weed killer known as atrazine but did not publish the data.
Democracy Now! 2009
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