How To Use Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane In A Sentence
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Some examples of POPS are polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), dioxins, and pesticides like dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT), chlordane, and dieldrin.
Baby Bites
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In Africa these include dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) and Chlordane.
Chemical use in Africa~ management and responses
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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.
Scott Dodd: Climate Change Drives Dengue Fever Re-Emergence in U.S.
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It's called dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane or DDT.
Craig and Marc Kielburger: Swatting Out Malaria with Education
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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.
EzineArticles
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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.
Free the Fight Against Malaria
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DDT--dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane--is perhaps the most effective tool in the arsenal to combat the deadly malaria pandemic.
Should We Feed Hungry People, Even If It's Bad For The Environment?
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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.
Chemical use in Africa~ opportunities and risks
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In the past, farmers have used toxic chemicals such as calcium arsenate, Paris green, dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, and toxaphene to rid their cotton crops of insects.
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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.
Plastic Trash in Oceans Enters Marine Food Chain