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It depends on the chemical. Fertilizers help them grow, defoliants and herbicides kill them, ethylene acts as a hormone, salt changes the osmotic balance, water is essential for plant life, carbon dioxide is used to manufacture food.

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chemicals that arent good to plants may kill them

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