Trimec Plus is an herbicide develop by Gordon ’s that is used to manipulate weeds on household lawn and turf grass on golf game courses and toy fields . It can be use over the intact surface of the lawn because the chemicals contained in the herbicide kill vernacular weeds like blowball and knotweed without harm the sens . According to the manufacturing business ’s warnings on the product recording label , it should be used with care because it can be take in through the tegument and by inhalation , and it can kill desirable plants if the product drift from the target or is plunge by their source .

MSMA

The main active ingredient in Trimec Plus is monosodium acid methanearsonate , or MSMA . This constitutional arsenical compound comprise 18 pct of the active ingredient . It works by destroying the chlorophyl in plants like finger grass , nut sedge , dallis grass and pigweed .

2, 4-D, Dicamba, & MCPP

2 , 4 - D , dicamba and MCPP are all chemicals in Trimec that mimic plant ' growth hormones . They induce deformed increase in weeds ' vascular arrangement that stimulate the leaves to shrink at the edge and die . 2 , 4 - D and MCPP are both dimethylamine salt that have been in use as herbicide since the Second World War , and they are effective against broadleaf weeds like dandelion , chickweed and lambsquarters . Dicamba is in the benzoic dose category of chemical . Its action is stronger than 2 , 4 - five hundred and MCPP , and it drink down many of the same broadleaf smoke as well as pigweed , black medical officer , thistle and knotweed .

Other Ingredients

Another 71.78 percentage of the contents of Trimec Plus are listed as " other ingredients , " also called " inert ingredient . " According to EPA regulations , herbicide manufacturers are only required to number as " participating factor " those chemicals that specifically kill weeds . While some inert ingredients in weedkiller may be harmless , oftentimes these chemical substance are more toxic to people and animals than the weedkiller themselves . The EPA does not require as extensive examination of sluggish ingredient as they do for herbicides . agree to the 2006 issue of the journal Environmental Health Perspectives , some soggy ingredient in herbicides may have unpredictable interactive reactions with other active and inert chemical substance in the product which are quite grievous , like neurotoxicity , carcinogenicity and endocrine interruption . In the interest group of protect their patronage secrets , weed killer manufacturers are not required to inform the populace about these extra ingredients , which may admit formaldehyde , sulfuric dose and antifreeze as well as wetter that assist the products penetrate leaves ' waxy surfaces .

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