Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A chemical agent, such as a pesticide, that is capable of destroying living organisms.
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- noun Any
substance that can destroyliving organisms
Etymologies
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Examples
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Filtration and a biocide are the answers to biological clogging of micro irrigation systems.
Food and Farm News 2009
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Food hygiene is also becoming an important sector in terms of silver demand because silver acts as a 'biocide', a type of bacteria killer.
MoneyWeek RSS - All 2010
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I was working with them as an alternative to biocide in cooling towers.
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I was working with them as an alternative to biocide in cooling towers.
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Nanosilver is a powerful biocide that can kill beneficial bacteria in the environment, especially in soil and water, creating an unacceptable toxicity risk to human health and the environment.
Ronnie Cummins: Top 10 Reasons to Use Organic Cosmetics 2010
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Nanosilver is a powerful biocide that can kill beneficial bacteria in the environment, especially in soil and water, creating an unacceptable toxicity risk to human health and the environment.
Ronnie Cummins: Top 10 Reasons to Use Organic Cosmetics 2010
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Ecocide, or perhaps biocide, or perhaps omnicide, would be an act exterminating not just all humans, but the entire circle of life on planet earth itself.
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RANDY DEARTH, CEO, LANXESS CORPORATION: We're bringing our biocide technology and trying to simulate what a metalworking fluid bed would be like.
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Metam sodium is a biocide, causes multiple birth defects, farmworker injuries, and is very toxic to birds and fish.
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The chlorine used to bleach the paper fibers is bad enough, but the manufacturing process is also known to release dioxin, a probable carcinogen, as well as tributylin (TBT), a biocide used in paper mills that is highly toxic to wildlife.
mercy commented on the word biocide
A cleanser, soap, or antiseptic.
June 28, 2008