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Fumigate


Definition:

  • (n.) To apply smoke to; to expose to smoke or vapor; to purify, or free from infection, by the use of smoke or vapors.
  • (n.) To smoke; to perfume.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Samples of raw cereals imported in Italy and of other foodstuffs that can be treated with bromine-containing fumigants were analysed for the total bromide content.
  • (2) The third one concern post-operation days: cubicle initial fumigation, high efficiency filtration and positive pressure air, strict protective insulation, single-use things, controlled food, specific anti viral prevention, catheters and tubes removal or replacement.
  • (3) On July 14, 1991, a train tanker car derailed in northern California, spilling 19,000 gallons of the soil fumigant metam sodium (sodium methyldithiocarbamate) into the Sacramento River north of Redding (Figure 1).
  • (4) Methyl bromide is commonly used as a soil fumigant in greenhouses.
  • (5) The recent trends in the possible use of irradiation as an alternative treatment to chemical fumigants for disinfestation of citrus and avocados and the prospects for the future application of irradiation for preservation of some of these fruits are outlined.
  • (6) Methyl bromide is a nearly odorless, volatile hydrocarbon used as a fumigant in the food industry.
  • (7) A field trial was conducted near Kelowna, British Columbia, to determine the effect of biological treatments alone and in combination with formalin fumigation in apple replant disease soil.
  • (8) Mononuclear lymphocytes were isolated from the blood of 12 individuals, who had been exposed to the vapour of the soil fumigant 1,3-dichloropropene (DCP).
  • (9) To examine whether long term occupational exposure to ethylene dibromide (EDB) affects semen quality a cross sectional study of semen quality was conducted among 46 men employed in the papaya fumigation industry in Hawaii, with an average duration of exposure of five years and a geometric mean breathing zone exposure to airborne EDB of 88 ppb (eight hour time weighted average) and peak exposures of up to 262 ppb.
  • (10) Methyl bromide and bromide ion concentrations were estimated in pasta manufactured before and after fumigation with methyl bromide.
  • (11) The fumigations ruined our food crops but the coca would just grow back stronger.” As the herbicide rained down on their farms, NGO’s with Plan Colombia cash offered coca growers were offered incentives to substitute coca for legal crops.
  • (12) Guidelines are offered along with a procedural checklist for the investigation of tent fumigation deaths.
  • (13) The fumigator used 15 kg of methyl bromide (2 cylinders), a quantity far greater than usual.
  • (14) Various measures for controlling it in the tissue culture laboratory are briefly discussed, such as use of antifungal antibiotics, fumigation with formaldehyde and heat sterilisation of the incubator.
  • (15) A procedure based on extraction, column chromatography and precipitation is described for the separation of ethylene oxide-1,2-14C fumigated coca-powder derivatives in 9 different groups.
  • (16) Following removal of polyethylene sheets covering soil fumigated with methyl bromide, four field-workers developed fatigue and light-headedness and 3 workers noted progressive respiratory, gastrointestinal (GI), and neurologic symptoms.
  • (17) The cases described provide a model for the investigation of tent fumigation deaths.
  • (18) Analysis of methyl bromide was carried out directly on the food products without preliminary extraction of fumigant.
  • (19) Preliminary experiments with other fumigants were carried out as well.
  • (20) Bacteria and virus used in the experiments, as well as air-borne organisms in the house, were perfectly inactivated by fumigation for 24 hours at the level of formalin mentioned above.

Fumigator


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, fumigates; an apparattus for fumigating.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Samples of raw cereals imported in Italy and of other foodstuffs that can be treated with bromine-containing fumigants were analysed for the total bromide content.
  • (2) The third one concern post-operation days: cubicle initial fumigation, high efficiency filtration and positive pressure air, strict protective insulation, single-use things, controlled food, specific anti viral prevention, catheters and tubes removal or replacement.
  • (3) On July 14, 1991, a train tanker car derailed in northern California, spilling 19,000 gallons of the soil fumigant metam sodium (sodium methyldithiocarbamate) into the Sacramento River north of Redding (Figure 1).
  • (4) Methyl bromide is commonly used as a soil fumigant in greenhouses.
  • (5) The recent trends in the possible use of irradiation as an alternative treatment to chemical fumigants for disinfestation of citrus and avocados and the prospects for the future application of irradiation for preservation of some of these fruits are outlined.
  • (6) Methyl bromide is a nearly odorless, volatile hydrocarbon used as a fumigant in the food industry.
  • (7) A field trial was conducted near Kelowna, British Columbia, to determine the effect of biological treatments alone and in combination with formalin fumigation in apple replant disease soil.
  • (8) Mononuclear lymphocytes were isolated from the blood of 12 individuals, who had been exposed to the vapour of the soil fumigant 1,3-dichloropropene (DCP).
  • (9) To examine whether long term occupational exposure to ethylene dibromide (EDB) affects semen quality a cross sectional study of semen quality was conducted among 46 men employed in the papaya fumigation industry in Hawaii, with an average duration of exposure of five years and a geometric mean breathing zone exposure to airborne EDB of 88 ppb (eight hour time weighted average) and peak exposures of up to 262 ppb.
  • (10) Methyl bromide and bromide ion concentrations were estimated in pasta manufactured before and after fumigation with methyl bromide.
  • (11) The fumigations ruined our food crops but the coca would just grow back stronger.” As the herbicide rained down on their farms, NGO’s with Plan Colombia cash offered coca growers were offered incentives to substitute coca for legal crops.
  • (12) Guidelines are offered along with a procedural checklist for the investigation of tent fumigation deaths.
  • (13) The fumigator used 15 kg of methyl bromide (2 cylinders), a quantity far greater than usual.
  • (14) Various measures for controlling it in the tissue culture laboratory are briefly discussed, such as use of antifungal antibiotics, fumigation with formaldehyde and heat sterilisation of the incubator.
  • (15) A procedure based on extraction, column chromatography and precipitation is described for the separation of ethylene oxide-1,2-14C fumigated coca-powder derivatives in 9 different groups.
  • (16) Following removal of polyethylene sheets covering soil fumigated with methyl bromide, four field-workers developed fatigue and light-headedness and 3 workers noted progressive respiratory, gastrointestinal (GI), and neurologic symptoms.
  • (17) The cases described provide a model for the investigation of tent fumigation deaths.
  • (18) Analysis of methyl bromide was carried out directly on the food products without preliminary extraction of fumigant.
  • (19) Preliminary experiments with other fumigants were carried out as well.
  • (20) Bacteria and virus used in the experiments, as well as air-borne organisms in the house, were perfectly inactivated by fumigation for 24 hours at the level of formalin mentioned above.

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