atrazine

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• So they plant the corn, but before the corn sprouts, they'll spray the landscape with the atrazine often in the spring.

• In one study, conducted from 1992 to 1994, the scientists tracked the movement of two common herbicides, atrazine and alachlor.

  Academic text (1998)

• Then they found atrazine in the Great Lakes as well.

• Now it's very well known now that atrazine is in many herbicides.

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• Corn farmers still love atrazine; however, rates are lower than they were before the '90s.

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• Samac worked with University of Minnesota scientists to create plants that detoxify atrazine.

  Academic text (2002)

• The Fort Wayne, Indiana, municipal treatment plant specially treats its water with activated charcoal to remove atrazine.

  Academic text (2005)

• The concern is that drainage discharge water can carry pollutants such as the herbicide atrazine, sediment, and nutrients to surface waters.

  Academic text (2005)

• Atrazine—a widely used herbicide—can be carried to reservoirs by drainage discharge water and other water runoff.

  Academic text (2005)

• Farmers often rely on atrazine to control weeds in their corn crops effectively.

Synonyms

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weed killer

vsatrazine

5 3.2

A substance that kills unwanted plants in gardens or on lawns

is a specific synthetic type used on crops such as corn and sugarcane

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