rotenone

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.