known as DDT, is a colorless, tasteless, and almost odorless crystalline chemical compound, an organochloride. Originally developed as an insecticide, it became...

environmental effects (e.g. DDT, chlordane, and toxaphene). Organophosphates are another large class of contact insecticides. These also target the insect's...

Look up DDT in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. DDT, or dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, is an insecticide. DDT may also refer to: Deflagration to detonation...

This is a list of insecticides. These are chemical compounds which have been registered as insecticides. The names on the list are the ISO common name...

toxic of these are still in use in organic farming. In the 1940s the insecticide DDT, and the herbicide 2,4-D, were introduced. These synthetic organic...

prize in Physiology or Medicine for his 1939 discovery of insecticidal qualities and use of DDT in the control of vector diseases such as malaria and yellow...

being DDT. The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends IRS as one of three primary means of malaria control, the others being use of insecticide treated...

was distributed on paper tape. The name is a pun on the insecticide DDT. The first version of DDT was developed at MIT for the PDP-1 computer in 1961, but...

increased awareness of the environmental hazards associated with the insecticide DDT used for some of these programs, this practice became less common....

Carson never called for an outright ban on DDT. She said in Silent Spring that even if DDT and other insecticides had no environmental side effects, their...