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n. An insecticide containing a naphthalene-derived compound.
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Aldrin is a tiny impact crater located on the southern part of the Mare Tranquillitatis, to the east of Sabine. It is located about 50 kilometers to the northwest of the Apollo 11 landing site. Named after Buzz Aldrin, the crater is the westernmost of a row of three craters named in honor of the Apollo 11 crew members. About 30 kilometers to the east is the landing site of the Surveyor 5 lunar probe.
This crater was previously identified as Sabine B before being named by the IAU. Sabine itself is to the west of Aldrin.
Aldrin is an organochlorine insecticide that was widely used until the 1970s, when it was banned in most countries. It is a colourless solid. Before the ban, it was heavily used as a pesticide to treat seed and soil. Aldrin and related "cyclodiene" pesticides (a term for pesticides derived from Hexachlorocyclopentadiene) became notorious as persistent organic pollutants.
Aldrin is a pesticide.
Aldrin may also refer to:
- Aldrin (crater), a lunar crater
- Buzz Aldrin, astronaut
- Lily Aldrin, fictional character in How I Met Your Mother
Usage examples of "aldrin".
Anguilla grass scattered by blimpbots across the southernmost zone of the Aldrin Plains had blossomed to produce a great deluge of uniform light green vegetation resembling a quiescent sea that was slowly progressing northward.
Leonov and Aldrin, coming untethered from their respective spacecraft while in orbit had been a real worry.
Pete Aldrin, like the others, sat in an ordinary chair along one side.
He turned away with a casual wave before Aldrin could say any of the devastating things colliding in his mind and turned to the next person in line.
Paul laughed a little too loudly, and Aldrin wondered if Paul had put something in his coffee.
Stafford and Cernan and Young circled the moon before they let Armstrong and Aldrin land.
You remember the first thing Buzz Aldrin did when they had a few minutes of personal time after Apollo 11 landed?
Aldrin could not see into our heads, but if he has an autistic brother, then he may know more than I thought.
Aldrin, that he has an autistic brother, together with his attitudes toward us, so I say nothing.
Alongside him, Buzz Aldrin - thirty-nine years old, bald as a coot, and eager as a virgin - was climbing into his own suit.
Aldrin pulled vigorously, and Hadamard feared he might rip the thin metal shell of the Lunar Module.