any of various water-soluble compounds having a sour taste and capable of turning litmus red and reacting with a base to form a salt
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Pesticide
a chemical used to kill pests (as rodents or insects)
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rain containing acids that form in the atmosphere when industrial gas emissions (especially sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides) combin…
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Pollution.rain containing acids that form in the atmosphere when industrial gas emissions (especially sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides) combin…
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Pollution.a mixture of gases (especially oxygen) required for breathing; the stuff that the wind consists of; "air pollution"; "a smell of chemi…
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Pollution.a mixture containing two or more metallic elements or metallic and nonmetallic elements usually fused together or dissolving into each…
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Pollution.(used of soil) compact and fine-grained; "the clayey soil was heavy and easily saturated"
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Pollution.(used of soil) compact and fine-grained; "the clayey soil was heavy and easily saturated"
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Pollution.a substance that contaminates
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Pollution.a substance that contaminates
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Pollution.water mixed with waste matter
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Pollution.the occurrence of a flow of water (as from a pipe)
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Pollution.excessive nutrients in a lake or other body of water, usually caused by runoff of nutrients (animal waste, fertilizers, sewage) from t…
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Pollution.material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow (especially with reference to its quality or use); "the…
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Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Pollution.loud and harsh sounding rock music with a strong beat; lyrics usually involve violent or fantastic imagery
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Pollution.material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow (especially with reference to its quality or use); "the…
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The measurement of the strength of acids, especially by a chemical process based on the law of chemical combinations, or the fact that…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: chemical, kill, pests, rodents, insects.That attraction which takes place, at an insensible distance, between the heterogeneous particles of bodies, and unites them to form c…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: chemical, kill, pests, rodents, insects.An earth abounding in pyrites, used by the ancients to kill insects, etc., on vines; -- applied by Brongniart to a carbonaceous alum s…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: chemical, kill, pests, rodents, insects.a chemical substance derivable from a mold or bacterium that can kill microorganisms and cure bacterial infections; "when antibiotics…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: chemical, kill, pests, rodents, insects.An apparatus for measuring the amount of heat contained in bodies or developed by some mechanical or chemical process, as friction, ch…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: chemical, kill, pests, rodents, insects.A genus of rodents, including the beaver. See Beaver.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: chemical, kill, pests, rodents, insects.any of various tiny insects whose larvae are parasites on eggs and larvae of other insects; many are beneficial in destroying injuriou…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: chemical, kill, pests, rodents, insects.any of various tiny insects whose larvae are parasites on eggs and larvae of other insects; many are beneficial in destroying injuriou…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: chemical, kill, pests, rodents, insects.a membranous pouch inside the mouth of many rodents (as a gopher)
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: chemical, kill, pests, rodents, insects.Pertaining to chemistry; characterized or produced by the forces and operations of chemistry; employed in the processes of chemistry;…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: chemical, kill, pests, rodents, insects.According to chemical principles; by chemical process or operation.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: chemical, kill, pests, rodents, insects.The force exerted between the atoms of elementary substance whereby they unite to form chemical compounds; chemical attaction; affinit…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: chemical, kill, pests, rodents, insects.any of numerous chiefly nocturnal insects; some are domestic pests
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: chemical, kill, pests, rodents, insects.a highly infectious disease of rodents (especially rabbits and squirrels) and sometimes transmitted to humans by ticks or flies or by…
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