0 the use of poisonous gas to remove harmful insects, bacteria, disease, etc. from somewhere or something: --
Their officers are doing all that they can by fumigation and limewashing to remedy this condition.
The regulations provided the method by which fumigation should be carried out.
For instance, chlorine is used for water purification, ammonia for refrigeration, sulphur dioxide for bleaching, hydrogen cyanide for fumigation.
As a result, new regulations were drawn up providing for strong enough fumigation to destroy the salmonella germs.
Controlled atmosphere and fumigation in grain storages.
However, methyl bromide fumigation has been phased from general usage in developed countries as of 2005 and will be phased out in developing countries by 2015.
Because of the short duration of persistence and because it cannot be used as a fumigation tarp, paper mulch may be adopted for commercial use primarily by organic growers.
Marketable yields equal to, or above, the 1999/2000 statewide average for conventional production systems were obtained with soil fumigation and soil solarization at the conventional site in 1999.
