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How is salt used to kill weeds?

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Salt is often used to kill weeds because it absorbs water. In other words, the plants die of thirst
Many of the active constituents in herbicides are present in the form of isopropylamine salt, such as ROUNDUP which is best bought in the concentrate 360g/L GLYPHOSATE. a good question is what is the other stuff, many people suggest the other stuff is worse for the environment and better for killing weeds than the glyphosate.

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