Abstract
AMONG the outstanding scientific advances of the Secord World War has been progress with insecticides mainly because of the discovery of D.D.T. A longjser es of researches due to P. Laiiger, P. Müller, H. Martin and their associates in the Basle laboratories of J. R. Geigy, S.A., has given us a relatively cheap agent which is effective against a wide, almost illimitable range of insects. This compound is white in colour, has little odour, is readily soluble in most organic solvents and possesses chemical and physical properties which allow of its incorporation in many formulations whereby the environments of varying types of pests can be penetrated. Lastly, practical experience and experimental investigation are reassuring about its safety when used intelligently.
D.D.T.: the Synthetic Insecticide
By Dr. T. F. West G. A. Campbell. Pp. xii + 301 + 13 plates. (London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1946.) 21s. net.
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CAMERON, G. DDT: the Synthetic Insecticide. Nature 158, 359 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/158359a0
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