What is "diatomaceous"

Usage examples of "diatomaceous".

Soap, rotenone, oil spray, or homemade chilli-onion-garlic spray can be used, as well as a dusting with diatomaceous earth.

Afterwards he spread diatomaceous earth around (see Tactics of Tiny Game Hunting) to kill any returning to the colony from the field.

If you want to kill them, have some diatomaceous earth or boric acid waiting on the fabric, but be careful, these compounds are poisonous.

In the meantime, don't treat food storage areas with the sort of diatomaceous earth you get in hardware shops.

In addition to being used as a dust, diatomaceous earth can be applied to plants as a spray.

When the ants come scurrying out with their eggs, douse them with soapy water or dust them with diatomaceous earth.

Or spread diatomaceous earth around the base of the plant (but don't inhale the dust).

Or sprinkle diatomaceous earth or wood ashes in a circle around the plant.

Mixing diatomaceous earth into the soil can also help to shred these little devils.

Ants can be kept away by sprinkling bonemeal or diatomaceous earth (use a mask and goggles) around the base of the plants and by wrapping and banding the tree trunk or plant stem with a sticky substance or grease.

Fortunately, you can dry ethanol to 199 proof by straining it through a tank filled with diatomaceous earth.

When the heated diatomaceous earth stops steaming the heat is removed immediately and it is allowed to cool before more distilled ethanol is poured through it for drying.

This makes diatomaceous earth very absorbent, and an excellent filter.

After the third wash the refined bio-diesel is filtered through diatomaceous earth filters and placed in storage containers for sale.

If a supply of diatomaceous earth does not get discovered before 1633, the safer ethanol process can be set aside in favor of the methanol process.