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Pentachlorophenol
https://ohiowatersheds.osu.edu/node/1573
GENERAL INFORMATION Pentachlorophenol is a white organic solid with needle-like crystals and a phenolic odor. The greatest use of pentachlorophenol is as a wood preservative (fungicide). Though once widely used as an herbicide, it was banned in 1987 for t ...
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Oxamyl (Vydate)
https://ohiowatersheds.osu.edu/node/1571
GENERAL INFORMATION Oxamyl, a synthetic organic chemical, is a highly toxic white crystalline solid with a slight sulfurous odor. Oxamyl is the chemical ingredient identified in widely used insecticides/nematicides, for example Vydate L. Vydate is a regis ...
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Methoxychlor
https://ohiowatersheds.osu.edu/node/1570
GENERAL INFORMATION Methoxychlor is a colorless organic solid with a slightly fruity odor. It is an insecticide preferred to DDT for use on animals, in animal feed, and on DDT-sensitive crops such as squash, melons, etc. Since methoxychlor is more unstabl ...
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Hexachlorocyclopentadiene
https://ohiowatersheds.osu.edu/node/1568
GENERAL INFORMATION Hexachlorocyclopentadiene is an oily, yellow-green organic liquid with a pungent odor. It is used as a raw material in manufacturing other chemicals, including pesticides, flame retardants, resins, dyes, pharmaceuticals, plastics, etc. ...
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Lindane
https://ohiowatersheds.osu.edu/node/1569
GENERAL INFORMATION Lindane is a white crystalline organic solid. Most uses being restricted in 1983, lindane is currently used primarily for treating wood-inhabiting beetles and seeds. It is also used as a dip for fleas and lice on pets, and livestock, f ...
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Hexachlorobenzene
https://ohiowatersheds.osu.edu/node/1567
GENERAL INFORMATION Hexachlorobenzene, a synthetic organic chemical, is a white crystalline solid. It does not occur naturally in the environment. Currently there are no commercial uses of hexachlorobenzene in the United States. It was used as a fungicide ...
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Heptachlor epoxide
https://ohiowatersheds.osu.edu/node/1566
GENERAL INFORMATION Heptachlor epoxide is formed when heptachlor breaks down in the environment. Most uses of heptachlor to kill termites in homes and insects on far crops was canceled in 1978. The only permitted use of heptachlor products is for fire ant ...
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Heptachlor
https://ohiowatersheds.osu.edu/node/1565
GENERAL INFORMATION Heptachlor is a white to tan waxy organic solid with a camphor-like odor. Heptachlor breaks down in the environment to form heptachlor epoxide. Most uses of heptachlor to kill termites in homes and insects on far crops was canceled in ...
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Ethylene dibromide
https://ohiowatersheds.osu.edu/node/1563
GENERAL INFORMATION Ethylene bromide, also known as EDB, and 1,2-Dibromoethane, is a colorless, heavy synthetic organic liquid with a mildly sweet chloroform-like odor. Ethylene dibromide is mainly used in an anti-knock gasoline mixtures, particularly avi ...
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Epichlorohydrin
https://ohiowatersheds.osu.edu/node/1562
GENERAL INFORMATION Epichlorohydrin is a colorless organic gas with a sweet odor. Epichlorhydrin is used for making glycerine and as a monomer/building block for making plastics and other polymers, some of which are used as coagulant aids in water treatme ...