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PERSISTENT PESTICIDES

Specialty Definition: PERSISTENT PESTICIDES

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Agriculture

Pesticides that do not readily break down in the environment. Becoming long-lived components of the ecosystem, these chemicals may have enduring effects at low concentrations or may bioaccumulate, posing hazards to higher predators. (references)

Environment

Pesticides that do not break down chemically or break down very slowly and remain in the environment after a growing season. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: PERSISTENT PESTICIDES


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 45 52 53 49 53 54 45 4E 54      50 45 53 54 49 43 49 44 45 53

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01000101 01010010 01010011 01001001 01010011 01010100 01000101 01001110 01010100 00100000 01010000 01000101 01010011 01010100 01001001 01000011 01001001 01000100 01000101 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#69 &#82 &#83 &#73 &#83 &#84 &#69 &#78 &#84 &#32 &#80 &#69 &#83 &#84 &#73 &#67 &#73 &#68 &#69 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0045 0052 0053 0049 0053 0054 0045 004E 0054      0050 0045 0053 0054 0049 0043 0049 0044 0045 0053

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

50395253435354394854250395354433743383953

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INDEX

1. Orthography
2. Bibliography


  

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