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- noun Plural form of
sterilant .
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Examples
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"The problem that concerns us here is one that has received little consideration: What happens to those incredibly numerous and vitally necessary inhabitants of the soil when poisonous chemicals are carried down into their world, either introduced directly as soil "sterilants" or borne on the rain that has picked up a lethal contamination as it filters through the leaf canopy or forest and orchard and cropland?"
Archive 2008-12-01 ReBecca Foster 2008
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"The problem that concerns us here is one that has received little consideration: What happens to those incredibly numerous and vitally necessary inhabitants of the soil when poisonous chemicals are carried down into their world, either introduced directly as soil "sterilants" or borne on the rain that has picked up a lethal contamination as it filters through the leaf canopy or forest and orchard and cropland?"
The 5-56 Meme ReBecca Foster 2008
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Glenn Beck lied when he said that the director of White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, “has proposed forcing abortions and putting sterilants in the drinking water to control population.”
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Beck explained -- without benefit of actual fact -- that Obama's advisers favor health-care rationing and sterilants in drinking water, and then he went on to endorse Sarah Palin's allegations that Americans would have to stand before Obama's "death panel" so bureaucrats could decide who was worthy to live.
Glenn Beck is obsessed with Hitler and Woodrow Wilson. (I'm just saying.) Dana Milbank 2010
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Policy, "has proposed forcing abortions and putting sterilants in the drinking water to control population."
Glen Beck Is Officially Crowned King Of Fools So Now We...Cry! 2009
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Add to this the the creepy folks Obama has surrounded himself with like his Science advisor who wrote a text book advocating forced abortions and putting sterilants in the water and who was it who said killing a deformed baby was not the same as killing a person?
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Soil sterilants such as Diphenamid, render the soil in which the plants lives toxic.
AP Environmental Science Chapter 16- Air, Water and Soils 2008
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Hospital sterilants insufficient FDA regulation may pose a public health risk: report to the Ranking Minority Member, Committee on Government Operations, ... of Representatives (SuDoc GA 1.13: HRD-93-79) by U.S.
Revolutionary Prostate Cancer Treatment Comes To Puerto Vallarta 2008
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In contrast, the National-Interstate Council of State Boards of Cosmetology (NIC) does not recommend use of formaldehyde-based dry sterilants due to their carcinogenic potential.
Alternatives for significant uses of formaldehyde in Massachusetts 2008
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The three classes of herbicides are: contact chemicals, systemic chemicals and soil sterilants.
AP Environmental Science Chapter 16- Air, Water and Soils 2008
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