D.D.T.n.
/diːdiːˈtiː/ Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, a white, crystalline, chlorinated hydrocarbon used as an insecticide in the form of a powder, an aqueous emulsion, or a non-aqueous solution. Also attributive and in other combinations.
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1943 Soap & Sanitary Chemicals Dec. 117/1 An insecticide material of similar type is now being made in the United States by Geigy & Co., New York, under the name ‘DDT’.
1944 W. S. Churchill Memorandum 9 Mar. in Second World War (1952) V. 612 The demand for the new insecticide, D.D.T., is urgent and increasing.
1944 Chemical Age 9 Sept. 246/2 All the DDT produced is at present reserved for the use of the armed forces.
1944 Chemical Age 9 Sept. 246/2 The DDT powder..was found effective.
1959 New Statesman 13 June 820/3 The mustard is to be powdered by helicopter with a DDT-type chemical.
1964 Ann. Reg. 1963 399 The accumulation of D.D.T. now going on in many people's fatty tissues might..be harmful in the long run.
1968 M. Pyke Food & Society viii. 118 The chlorinated hydrocarbon pesticides, of which DDT is by far the commonest, are very persistent in soil.
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