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defoliants
noun
defoliant
noun

defoliants <a defoliant; defoliants> N

defoliants
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defoliant <a defoliant; defoliants> N

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Salt and dust storms and the spraying of pesticides and defoliants for the cotton crop have led to severe degradation of air quality in rural areas.
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Defoliants differ from herbicides in that the former seeks mainly to strip leaves from plants, and the latter is used to destroy or inhibit the growth of plants.
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Sold goods included relatively benign items like boots, but also aircraft, munitions, napalm and commercial defoliants, the use of which was fiercely opposed by anti-war protesters at the time.
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Among those chemicals were DDT, banned by international convention, and several defoliants and herbicides.
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The base also used a range of powerful defoliants to clear brush from the 1950s until the 1980s, when the most toxic substances were banned.
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Defoliants are used in cotton production to aid harvesting.
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Forests were sprayed with defoliants, thousands of rural forest dwelling people uproots from their homes and moved and roads driven into previously isolated areas.
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It has been said that over 3.2 million liters and kilograms of chemical defoliants were sprayed during that time.
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