daminozide
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of daminozide
d(imethyl) + amino- + (hydra)zide components of the chemical name
Example Sentences
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Last month the agency announced its intention to ban the use of daminozide by next winter and said that it was barring use of the fungicide captan on 42 crops.
From Time Magazine Archive
It started with a report from the Natural Resources Defense Council, a nonprofit environmental group, that apples treated with the growth regulator Alar were soaking small children with dangerously high levels of daminozide, a possible carcinogen.
From Time Magazine Archive
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