Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Properties


  • 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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