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  2. TruGreen - Wikipedia

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    TruGreen, originally known as ChemLawn and later as TruGreen ChemLawn, is the largest lawn treatment company in the United States. [1] [2] [3] The company was founded in 1969 and provides lawn care and tree and shrub care treatments on a subscription basis (except in New York where it is by contract basis). [4]

  3. Lawns in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The idea of using chemicals to control a lawn is even newer. Around the 1930s, the use of chemicals to maintain a lawn was advised against. The most common way to control a yard during this time was to either hand pull the weeds or keep chickens. Chemical use became popular in the post-WWII era and has grown significantly since then.

  4. Smell of freshly cut grass - Wikipedia

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    The chemicals responsible for the smell of freshly cut grass are used as aroma compounds by the perfume industry. Hexanal and related compounds are used by the food industry in recreating fruit and vegetable flavours. The yearly production of cis-3-Hexen-1-ol is about 30 tonnes. The compound, which has the smell of freshly cut grass, is ...

  5. The Unsettled—and Unsettling—Science of Lawn Chemicals - AOL

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  6. Diazolidinyl urea - Wikipedia

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    Diazolidinyl urea was poorly characterized until recently and the single Chemical Abstracts Service structure assigned to it is probably not the major one in the commercial material. Instead, new data indicate that one of the hydroxymethyl functional groups of the imidazolidine ring is attached to the carbon , rather than on the urea nitrogen ...

  7. Lawn - Wikipedia

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    The use of pesticides and other chemicals to care for lawns has also led to the death of nearly 7 million birds each year, a topic that was central to the novel Silent Spring by the conservationist Rachel Carson. [28] The use of lawn chemicals made its first appearance in the 18th century through the introduction of “English garden” fads.

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