simazine in English

noun
1
a synthetic compound derived from triazine and used as a herbicide, especially to kill broadleaved weeds and grasses before they emerge.
Bioassays with lettuce and cucumber seedlings showed that simazine , a triazine herbicide related to atrazine, can persist in soils and cause subsequent replanting problems.

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1. Atrazine is a member of the triazine chemical class, which includes simazine and propazine

2. This technology can identify many polluting analytes, including atrazine, simazine, 2,4 dichlorophenoxyacetic acid, pentachlorophenol, paraquat, and alachlor.

3. Atrazine is part of the triazine chemical class, which includes simazine and propazine due to their common mechanism of toxicity

4. Endosulfan: The technical mixture of this broad-spectrum insecticide consists of several isomers of which only one, the alpha isomer, has a priority higher than simazine.

5. Observed adverse effects included an increased incidence of aborted foetuses and embryonic resorptions, along with hypoplastic lungs, reduced pup weight and vitality and increased incidence of skeletal variations, such as non-ossification of the sternebrae.7 Simazine was not teratogenic at maternally non-toxic doses in rabbits exposed to 5, 75 or 200 mg/kg bw per day during gestation.7 No adverse reproductive effects were observed in a three-generation study in albino Charles River rats receiving 50 or 100 ppm simazine in the diet.