aldrinn.
/ˈɔːldrɪn/, /ˈɒldrɪn/, U.S. /ˈɔldrɪn/, /ˈɑldrɪn/ Agriculture. Now chiefly historical.
A chlorinated polycyclic hydrocarbon, formerly used as an insecticide. Cf. dieldrin n.Chemical formula: C12H8Cl6.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > chemistry > organic chemistry > hydrocarbons > [noun] > cyclic hydrocarbons > others
heveëne1838
menthene1838
carotene1861
stilbene1868
mesityl1879
naphthene1884
tetramethylene1885
hexamethylene1887
pentamethylene1887
irene1894
pregnane1932
adamantane1933
aldrin1949
sterane1951
norbornane1952
1949 U.S. Dept. Agric. Release Interdepart. Comm. on Pest Control (title) Aldrin, a coined name for an insecticidal product.
1953 Ann. Reg. 1952 412 A new American insecticide, aldrin, was used..to supplement other methods of [locust] control.
1962 R. L. Carson Silent Spring iii. 22 When carrots are taken from a bed treated with aldrin they are found to contain residues of dieldrin.
1973 Science 13 July 143/3 A current priority of the Environmental Defense Fund..is to bring about a ban of aldrin and dieldrin.
1999 R. Deakin Waterlog (2000) xvi. 184 It has taken thirty years for the powerful poisons that killed them, organochloride pesticides like aldrin, dieldrin and DDT, to flush out of our rivers.
2010 Times (Nexis) 18 Oct. 17 The primary cause of the rapid decline in otters in the 1950s and 1960s had been the introduction of the pesticides dieldrin and aldrin.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
<
n.1949