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INVESTIGATION OF INSECTICIDAL SPRAYS

Nature volume 157, pages 80–81 (1946)Cite this article

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THE toxicity of oil-base sprays to flying insects X can readily be determined if care be taken to standardize the conditions. Preliminary experiments with emulsion sprays confirmed an impression derived from conflicting reports of other workers that the toxicity of these sprays is more difficult to determine. It also suggested to us that other measurements than those of particle-size and toxicity would be necessary if progress were to be made in the making up and application of these emulsion sprays.

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    A. B. P. PAGE, A. STRINGER & R. E. BLACKITH

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PAGE, A., STRINGER, A. & BLACKITH, R. INVESTIGATION OF INSECTICIDAL SPRAYS. Nature 157, 80–81 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/157080a0

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