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Principles of Pesticide Degradation in Soil

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Environmental Dynamics of Pesticides

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History will record that eventually there was a relatively simple accommodation to the extraordinarily complex problem of defining and using principles of degradation to predict this aspect of the behavior of pesticides in soil. So it is with many scientific endeavors.

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  1. Ag-Organics Department, Dow Chemical Company, Midland, Michigan, 48640, USA

    C. A. I. Goring & D. A. Laskowski

  2. Ag-Organics Department, Dow Chemical Company, Walnut Creek, California, 94598, USA

    J. W. Hamaker & R. W. Meikle

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    Rizwanul Haque

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Goring, C.A.I., Laskowski, D.A., Hamaker, J.W., Meikle, R.W. (1975). Principles of Pesticide Degradation in Soil. In: Haque, R., Freed, V.H. (eds) Environmental Dynamics of Pesticides. Environmental Science Research, vol 6. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-2862-9_9

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