Abstract
AN important paper by Dr. Hubert Martin on the standardisation of petroleum and tar oils and preparations as insecticides appears in the Annals of Applied Biology (22, 334). In recent years, a great deal of attention has been devoted by research workers and by the appropriate Government departments to the standardisation and specification of the sprays and dusts employed for the control of insect pests and diseases infesting agricultural and horticultural crops. An important body of knowledge on the chemical constitution and physical properties of these materials is scattered through the literature of the subject, and is so extensive as to be available only to relatively few. Of the many insecticides now in use, the petroleum and tar distillate oils occupy a very important position, and their use, already widespread, is expanding. Dr. Martin gives an extended and critical review of the published information of the chemical and physical factors defining these products, and in addition incorporates much original work of his own.
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Petroleum and Tar Oils as Insecticides. Nature 136, 676–677 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136676b0
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