dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane , DDT (Abkürzung)

The first pesticide used for vector control was DDT (dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane.)

DDT, or dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, was banned in the United States in the early 1970's because of environmental concerns and the animal evidence on cancer.

For example, we used to use DDT (Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane) for almost everything, and found out it didn't work on everything.

DDT (dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane) is an organochlorine insecticide which is a colorless, crystalline solid, tasteless and almost odorless chemical compound.

The compound he had placed in the cage was dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT), or, more precisely, 1,1,1-trichloro-2,2-bis(4-chlorophenyl)ethane, which a Viennese pharmacologist named Othmar Zeidler had first synthesized in 1874.

One PBT of concern includes DDT (dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane), an organochlorine that was widely used as an insecticide during World War II to protect soldiers from malaria carried by mosquitoes.

Environmental Protection Agency Director William D. Ruckelshaus ordered an almost complete ban, in the United States, of the famous pesticide DDT (dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane), with all use to cease by the end of 1972.

According to the The Dedalus Book of Absinthe by Phil Baker, it was made by combining gin with a pinch of DDT (also known as dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane), an insecticide that would later be banned in most countries; consumers of this concoction claimed that its effects were similar to absinthe.