nonagrochemical

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

non- +‎ agrochemical

Adjective[edit]

nonagrochemical (not comparable)

  1. Not agrochemical.
    • 1991, Inter-American Foundation, “Nurturing Common Economic Sense”, in In Review, volumes 1991-2000, page 28:
      After two years of listening, looking, and learning to apply what he saw and understood about nonagrochemical farming methods , he is a man with a simple but important message : " With organic cultivation methods , costs go down ; production and profits go up .... A bit more work but well worth it . "
    • 2014, Rathnam Chaguturu, Collaborative Innovation in Drug Discovery:, page 546:
      Restricted compounds are essentially the same except the chemistry owner may have ongoing collaborations with, for example, an agrochemical company. In this instance, the owner can still make the compounds available for screening but restrict usage to nonagrochemical targets/assays.
    • 2018, Graham J. Goldsworthy, Insect Flight, page 350:
      Random compounds for screening come from many sources: nonagrochemical industries such as pharmaceuticals, universities, catalogs, plants collected on expeditions, and so on.