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butanedioate

butanedioate is the alternative form of malathion.

Meaning of malathion

Noun

malathion (countable and uncountable, plural malathions)

  1. An organophosphorus insecticide, Diethyl [(dimethoxyphosphinothioyl)-thio]butanedioate.
    • "Although effective in degrading pesticides with P-O bonds, washing of the vegetables sprayed with the thiolester organophosphate insecticide malathion with the enzyme did not yield any improved degradation."

Questions about butanedioate

What is butanedioate the alternative form of?
Butanedioate is the alternative form of malathion.

Words near butanedioate in the dictionary

  1. butane
  2. butanediamide
  3. butanediamine
  4. butanedicarboxylic acid
  5. butanedinitrile
  6. butanedioate
  7. butanedioic acid
  8. butanediol
  9. butanediols
  10. butanedione
  11. butanediones

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Adapted from Wiktionary: butanedioate (page history and authors); malathion (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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