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RECENT investigations in these laboratories1 have shown that it is possible to increase the potency of glass plates treated with D.D.T. by storing them previously in a box made of Burma teak, Tectona grandis L. As a first step in understanding the mechanism of this activation, the synergistic property, if any, possessed by β-methyl anthraquinone, a constituent of teak, was studied.
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RANGANATHAN, S., KOSHI, T. & SITARAMAN, N. Methyl Anthraquinone (Tectoquinone)—a Synergist for 2,2-bis-(p-chlorophenyl)-I,I,I- trichloroethane (D.D.T.). Nature 164, 1095 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/1641095a0
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