dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane
IPA: dˈɪkɫˈɔrʌdʌfʌnʌɫtrʌkɫˈɔroʊʌθˈeɪn
noun
- (organic chemistry) A chlorinated hydrocarbon originally used as an insecticide, often abbreviated as DDT.
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Examples of "dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane" in Sentences
- It's called dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane or DDT.
- In Africa these include dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) and Chlordane.
- DDT--dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane--is perhaps the most effective tool in the arsenal to combat the deadly malaria pandemic.
- Some examples of POPS are polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), dioxins, and pesticides like dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT), chlordane, and dieldrin.
- A book documenting among other things the effect of an environmental pesticide ingredient known as dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, called DDT for short awakened a population to the danger of pollutants.
- Pesticides such as dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) are used primarily to control malaria as well as in the veterinary sector to control plague-transmitting fleas and trypanosomiasis transmitting tsetse flies.
- Over the past 30 years, a global outcry against using the pesticide dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, or DDT, has led to the resurgence of the mosquito, a voracious consumer of human blood and carrier of infectious disease.
- And we found in my blood trace levels of PCBs [Polychlorinated biphenyls - a man-made organic chemical], DDT [dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane - a synthetic pesticide], PFCs [Perfluorocarbons - linked to infertility] and high levels of flame retardant.
- Coincidentally, and perhaps ironically, an expert committee convened by the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants is also meeting this week, in Geneva, to discuss dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane or DDT, an anti-malaria insecticide that has been saving lives since 1945.
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