单词 | ten-eighty |
释义 | > as lemmasten-eighty ten-eighty n. (more commonly 1080) [see quot. 19452] a formation of sodium fluoroacetate used as a poison against predatory animals. ΚΠ 1945 Science 31 Aug. 232 (heading) ‘Ten-eighty’, a war-produced rodenticide. 1945 Science 31 Aug. 232 One, commonly referred to under its laboratory serial number, ‘1080’,..has been subjected to sufficiently adequate field-testing to warrant the assertion that a promising new rodenticide has been discovered. 1961 New Scientist 13 Apr. 17/1 About one and a half grains of ‘ten-eighty’ are dissolved in a little water and injected into 100 lb of meat. 1971 W. Hillen Blackwater River xii. 117 Then Compound 1080 (ten-eighty)..reached British Columbia and created a ‘predator control’ bureaucracy more difficult to eliminate than wolves. < as lemmas |
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