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endosulphan

endosulphan is the alternative form of endosulfan.

Meaning of endosulfan

Noun

endosulfan (countable and uncountable, plural endosulfans)

  1. A toxic chlorinated polycyclic insecticide used to control mites.
    • Diagnostic doses of six acaricides (fenothiocarb, endosulfan, chlorfenapyr, tebufenpyrad, cyenopyrafen and cyflumetofen) resulted in a 68.0~71.8% mortality rate (on average) in the test mite populations, whereas the remaining six acaricides (monocrotophos, omethoate, bifenthrin, abamectin...2015 November 7, “Phenotypic- and Genotypic-Resistance Detection for Adaptive Resistance Management in Tetranychus urticae Koch”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Forms of endosulphan

pluralendosulphans

Questions about endosulphan

What is endosulphan the alternative form of?
Endosulphan is the alternative form of endosulfan.

Words near endosulphan in the dictionary

  1. endosulfans
  2. endosulfatase
  3. endosulfatases
  4. endosulfine
  5. endosulfines
  6. endosulphan
  7. endosulphans
  8. endosurgery
  9. endosurgical
  10. endosymbiogenesis
  11. endosymbiogenetic

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