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  2. Pesticide application - Wikipedia

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    A manual backpack-type sprayer Space treatment against mosquitoes using a thermal fogger Grubbs Vocational College students spraying Irish potatoes. Pesticide application is the practical way in which pesticides (including herbicides, fungicides, insecticides, or nematode control agents) are delivered to their biological targets (e.g. pest organism, crop or other plant).

  3. Sprayer - Wikipedia

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    Sprayers range in size from man-portable units (typically backpacks with spray guns) to trailed sprayers that are connected to a tractor, to self-propelled units similar to tractors with boom mounts of 4–30 feet (1.2–9.1 m) up to 60–151 feet (18–46 m) in length depending on engineering design for tractor and land size.

  4. Spray (liquid drop) - Wikipedia

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    Knapsack sprayer used to sulfate on vegetables. Valencian Museum of Ethnology. Spray application of herbicides, insecticides, and pesticides is essential to distribute these materials over the intended target surface. [20] Pre-emergent herbicides are sprayed onto soil, but many materials are applied to the plant leaf surface.

  5. Ag-Chem Equipment - Wikipedia

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    Ag-Gator 404SP [7] The first self-propelled Ag-Chem sprayer was developed in 1967 and was called the Ag-Gator 404SP.This front wheel driven model featured a gasoline-powered, 61 horsepower Wisconsin brand engine, a stainless-steel 440 gallon product tank, and a 40' boom width.

  6. Cold spraying - Wikipedia

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    A robot controls the movement of the sprayer. The U.S. Army uses the technology to repair a component in Blackhawk helicopters. General Electric is adapting the technology for civilian applications. [18] The US Navy has adopted cold spray welding across its global operations on an experimental basis. [19]

  7. Sulfate - Wikipedia

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    Knapsack sprayer used to apply sulfate to vegetables. Valencian Museum of Ethnology. Sulfates are widely used industrially. Major compounds include: Gypsum, the natural mineral form of hydrated calcium sulfate, is used to produce plaster. About 100 million tonnes per year are used by the construction industry.

  8. Yamabiko Corporation - Wikipedia

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    In 1970, Kyoritsu claimed to have 'revolutionized' outdoor cleaning with the PB-9, a backpack power blower. The Echo brand of hand-held petrol powered tools including chainsaws, brushcutters, hedge trimmers and leaf blowers are manufactured in Yokosuka and Morioka , with other major plants in Shenzhen , China and Lake Zurich , Illinois .

  9. Hand pump - Wikipedia

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    Where it is necessary to raise water to a height above that to which a suction or lift pump will operate effectively (about 7 metres), or to raise the pressure so that it will exit a nozzle with a strong force, such as through a fire hose, a force pump may be used. As with a suction pump, in its manual form it relies on an operator to pump a ...