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n. (context organic compound English) A very toxic chlorinated polycyclic hydrocarbon once used as an insecticide.
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Chlordane, or chlordan, is an organochlorine compound used as a pesticide. This white solid was sold in the U.S. until 1988 as an insecticide for treating approximately 30 million homes for termites for crops like corn and citrus, and on lawns and domestic gardens. Technical grade chlordane is a complex mixture of over 120 structurally related chemical compounds.
Usage examples of "chlordane".
DDT and chlordane, tend to accumulate in the tissues of creatures that are exposed to them.
Many Australian houses built in recent decades have been treated with chlordane to control termites.
Although chlordane was banned in the US in 1987, many homeowners there are deeply concerned to hear that it can last under a house for up to twenty-five years.
In America, chlordane has been banned for some years as a known carcinogen.
How are you to know when you move into a house that it has been treated with barrels of chlordane, not once, but over and over again?
Although chlordane was banned in the US in 1987, many homeowners there are deeply concerned to hear that it can last under a house for up to twenty-five years.
DDT and chlordane, tend to accumulate in the tissues of creatures that are exposed to them.
Another pamphlet from a university extension service recommended painting the closets with chlordane.
Those in the organochlorine (OC) group, like DDT and chlordane, tend to accumulate in the tissues of creatures that are exposed to them.
Chlorinated hydrocarbons, such as the chemical chlordane, are used routinely for termites (and ants) in thousands of homes with dozens of litres being used for an average domestic residence.