NOUN
- a white crystalline insecticide that has low toxicity for mammals; is used in home gardens; extracted from the roots of derris and cube
How To Use rotenone In A Sentence
- Once the rotenone is extracted from the mature seeds, the remaining oil is a fine alternative to cottonseed, peanut, or soybean oil.
- Chief Petty Officer Robert Lanier of the U.S. Coast Guard said workers began dumping a fish toxin called rotenone into the canal about 8 p.m. and would continue the poisoning until some time Thursday morning. Daytondailynews.com - News
- A toxin called rotenone would first exterminate non-native fish from the nine-mile creek section—an idea that rankles some local anglers—under a proposal by state and federal biologists. Flies, and Their Lawyers, Keep Rare Trout From Going Home
- The fish poison, called rotenone, will be dumped into the canal just above the barrier on Dec. 3. JSOnline.com
- Found commonly in a number of wild plants, rotenone makes it impossible for the fish to use oxygen.
- Before removal of the enclosures the rotenone was detoxified using an equivalent concentration of potassium permanganate.
- Officials will spread a fish toxin called rotenone near Lockport, Ill., hoping to kill the carp. ABC News: ABCNews
- He directed his students to study fish poisons a decade or more before derris root went into mass production in the tropics as a source of rotenone, the most important biodegradable insecticide. One River
- Use insecticidal soap sprays or rotenone to kill this pest.
- Next, we polarized mitochondria with succinate in the presence of rotenone to examine the effects of proton pumping on the transient depolarizations.