- White, crystalline solid
- Weak chemical odor (smells lingers and stains on walls)
- Highly hydrophobic
- Nearly insoluble in water but has a good solubility in most organic solvents, fats, and oil.
- Commercial insecticides is a mixture of DDT, Dichlorodiphenyldichloroethylene (DDE) and dichlorodiphenyldichloroethane (DDD) where DDD and DDE are DDT breakdown metabolites and products.But DDT constitutes 92%.
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