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at⋅ra⋅zine

[a-truh-zeen]
–noun Chemistry.
a white crystalline compound, C8H14N5Cl, used as an herbicide to control weeds, esp. in corn crops.

Origin:
1960–65; a(mino-) + tr(i)azine
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atrazine

noun
a synthetic compound derived from triazine that is widely used as an agricultural herbicide; "atrazine is thought to cause cancer and is banned in some European countries" 
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