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  • adjective Able to kill living organisms, especially microorganisms

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Examples

  • Ward's proposes that all but one of the mass extinctions on Earth were caused by life itself, and reveals that there is an alarming decline of diversity and biomass on Earth, caused by life's own "biocidal" tendencies.

    WNYC New York Public Radio 2010

  • The biocidal socks should stay fresh for five workouts.

    The Sweet Smell Of Socks 2008

  • Furthermore, of the estimated 1500 known biocidal active agents currently in use, such is the expense of registering products that only some 370 have been notified under the directive and many perfectly good products will fall by the wayside.

    Sloppy journalism Richard 2006

  • So setting aside for now any and all skepticism of the polymer's ability to significantly mitigate some future species-ending plague, might we expect biocidal fountains to proliferate soon: like CCTV cameras, littering your daily commute, and misting you from the moment you exit your house till you finally settle down on your office chair?

    Archive 2006-12-01 2006

  • The story concerns a small chemical manufacturer which produces a common and garden chemical called ADBAC (Benzalkonium Chloride, for short) – technically a quaternary ammonium compound (QAC) with biocidal properties.

    Comply or go out of business Peter Troy 2008

  • Brazil knows that deforestation of its tropical forests contributes to global warming, but scoflaws who value biocidal greed over scientific realities hold the upper hand.

    OpEdNews - Quicklink: With Guns and Fines, Brazil Takes On Loggers 2008

  • Simply one of the many biocidal glories of NAFTA ... not long after American companies started plopping their most toxic operations just across the border to capitalize on such as lax Mexican environmental laws, a shocking spike in the number of babies born without a brain (anencephalic) became a legacy of the massive industrial pollution.

    Stemmers, Part I 2008

  • As comprehensively biocidal as petroleum and its enormous empire of petrochemical synthetics have been, Cannabis hemp offers exactly the opposite.

    See No Hemp, Hear No Hemp, Speak No Hemp, Part II 2008

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    OpEdNews - Quicklink: With Guns and Fines, Brazil Takes On Loggers 2008

  • The story concerns a small chemical manufacturer which produces a common and garden chemical called ADBAC (Benzalkonium Chloride, for short) – technically a quaternary ammonium compound (QAC) with biocidal properties.

    Archive 2008-04-01 Peter Troy 2008

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