What is "nontoxic"

Usage examples of "nontoxic".

While these nontoxic remedies can do a good job on the mozzies, they might not do much for your love-life!

All the occupants of an apartment building should meet and co-ordinate a sound, safe method of pest control, including how garbage is to be managed and what kind of nontoxic pest treatments can be used.

Thank you for the update in your annual report on your progress in modifying water sylphweed to provide the dual function of water purification on a commercial scale and to precipitate toxic and nontoxic contaminants in a reusable mineral form.

Five firefighters hovered behind him, ready­ing a hose and various kinds of nontoxic extinguishing chemicals.

It was not an exact duplicate because the material suspended in the soup was a nonliving synthetic rather than the living organisms found in the original, but it had the same food value and, because it was nontoxic so far as the other water breathers who were likely to use the ward were concerned, the astronaut's quarters were contained by a transparent plastic film rather than metal plating and a lock chamber.

Chemically inert, nontoxic (in ordinary concentrations), odorless, tasteless, non-allergenic, nonflammable, CFCs represent a brilliant technical solution to a well-defined practical problem.

I suppose it's some nontoxic organic compound with a loose affinity for oxygen, but do the cells work well with it?

Animals can also be treated with nontoxic tick shampoos similar to the ones discussed in the section on fleas, but don't rely entirely on these.