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lindane

[ US /ˈɫɪnˌdeɪn/ ]
NOUN
  1. a white crystalline powder used as an agricultural insecticide

How To Use lindane In A Sentence

  • It is derived from a substance called permethrin, which was introduced as an alternative to a banned chemical called lindane.
  • DDT, dieldrin, lindane and other cancer-causing pesticides, many of them sprayed from airplanes, were not banned until 1989.
  • Lindane is found in most non-organic chocolate.
  • Insecticides used for seed treatments in crops include diazinon, lindane, imidacloprid, permethrin, chlorpyrifos, and tefluthrin.
  • Some lice shampoos also contain lindane which, when inhaled, ingested or absorbed through the skin, causes vomiting and diarrhoea.
  • Insecticides used for seed treatments in crops include diazinon, lindane, imidacloprid, permethrin, chlorpyrifos, and tefluthrin.
  • Others blame the comeback of bedbugs on their resistance to DDT's many substitutes e.g., malathion, diazinon, lindane, chlordane, dichlorovos and now pyrethroids. Bill Chameides: Is Propoxur the Way to Not Let the Bedbugs Bite?
  • Therefore, it can not cause a threat on ecological environment to use lindane in partial control of crop insect pest in China.
  • There is a significant body of evidence suggesting that where lindane is used extensively, the incidence of breast cancer is higher.
  • Organochlorine insecticides include chemicals such as DDT, methoxychlor, heptachlor, chlordane, toxaphene, aldrin, endrin, dieldrin, and lindane.
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