Definitions
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- noun a yellow insecticide used as a dust or spray to control garden pests and house flies and mites
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Examples
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Malathion, which isn't as environmentally friendly, could cost $25,000, and could be riskier for grass for cattle grazing.
The Money Times 2010
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Organophosphates, such as Malathion, are more poisonous than other types of insecticides, but have much shorter residence times in the environment.
AP Environmental Science Chapter 16- Air, Water and Soils 2008
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'Malathion' mixed with Vaseline is also effective particularly against the mange mite.
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(organophosphates): The insecticides of this group such as Malathion, Dipterex,
Chapter 10 1981
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Malathion and lindane generally require a prescription for drugs that go by the names Ovide or Kwell, respectively.
The Center for Public Integrity: A Crawling Issue: Head Lice Treatments Worse Than The Pest Itself? The Center for Public Integrity 2011
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Malathion and lindane generally require a prescription for drugs that go by the names Ovide or Kwell, respectively.
The Center for Public Integrity: A Crawling Issue: Head Lice Treatments Worse Than The Pest Itself? The Center for Public Integrity 2011
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I knew the terror of five to seven helicopters coming in a silent V formation dropping a sheet of Malathion, whether you were inside or out, leaving cars pitted and pets dead behind them.
Seizures and Memories: Elizabeth Elizabeth McClung 2008
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I knew the terror of five to seven helicopters coming in a silent V formation dropping a sheet of Malathion, whether you were inside or out, leaving cars pitted and pets dead behind them.
Archive 2008-06-01 Elizabeth McClung 2008
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Most weekends during my childhood years I had worked by my father's side, soaking in toxic doses of Dursban, Chlordane, Malathion and DDT.
Dr. Timothy Brantley: New Miracle Cure Found: It's You! 2008
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Though products like Malathion have been used over the years for such applications, you will achieve better results with Pyrethrum and Permethrin and they have little if any odor.
Archive 2005-10-01 2005
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