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Chlorpropham or CIPC is a plant growth regulator and herbicide used as a sprout suppressant for grass weeds, alfalfa, lima and snap beans, blueberries, cane fruit, carrots, cranberries, ladino clover, garlic, seed grass, onions, spinach, sugar beets, tomatoes, safflower, soybeans, gladioli and woody nursery stock.
Phosgene is an organic chemical compound with the formula COCl 2.It is a toxic, colorless gas; in low concentrations, its musty odor resembles that of freshly cut hay or grass. [7]
It is currently classified as a restricted use pesticide in the United States: its use is mapped by the US Geological Survey, whose data show consistent use from 1992, with a small recent decline in the ten years to 2017, the latest date for which figures are available.
Carbofuran is known to be particularly toxic to birds. In its granular form, a single grain will kill a bird. Birds often eat numerous grains of the pesticide, mistaking them for seeds, and then die shortly thereafter. Before the granular form was banned by the EPA in 1991, [16] it was blamed for millions of bird deaths per year. The liquid ...
Calas [34] – a breakfast food in New Orleans [35] Cereal – Processed food made from grain; Cereal bar – Oat bar made with butter, sugar & syrup [22] Cereal germ – Reproductive part of a grass seed [36] Changua – Traditional Colombian late night dish [37] Chicken and waffles – American dish; Chilaquiles – Traditional Mexican dish [38]
≈ 1 food calorie (large calorie, kcal), which is the approximate amount of energy needed to raise the temperature of one kilogram of water by one degree Celsius at a pressure of one atmosphere. 1 × 10 −9: 1.162 kWh Under controlled conditions one kilogram of TNT can destroy (or even obliterate) a small vehicle. 4.8 × 10 −9: 5.6 kWh
Recipes for its production started to appear in the late sixteenth century. The earliest recipes for the production of hydrochloric acid are found in Giovanni Battista Della Porta 's (1535–1615) Magiae naturalis ("Natural Magic") and in the works of other contemporary chemists like Andreas Libavius ( c. 1550 –1616), Jean Beguin (1550–1620 ...