Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A poisonous yellowish liquid organophosphate compound, C10H14NO5PS, used as an insecticide. Its use in the United States is highly restricted.
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- noun O,O-Diethyl-O-4-nitro-phenylthiophosphate, a powerful, dangerously toxic
insecticide .
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- noun a colorless and odorless toxic oil used as an insecticide
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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* After the ban, it was replaced by parathion, which is really unsafe.
State of fear Crichton, Michael, 1942- 2004
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So for example the pesticides made of organophosphates (parathion and malathion) and organochlorides (such as DDT) permanently deactivate an enzyme that is essential to the nervous system.
THE STORY OF STUFF Annie Leonard 2010
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So for example the pesticides made of organophosphates (parathion and malathion) and organochlorides (such as DDT) permanently deactivate an enzyme that is essential to the nervous system.
THE STORY OF STUFF Annie Leonard 2010
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So for example the pesticides made of organophosphates (parathion and malathion) and organochlorides (such as DDT) permanently deactivate an enzyme that is essential to the nervous system.
THE STORY OF STUFF Annie Leonard 2010
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So for example the pesticides made of organophosphates (parathion and malathion) and organochlorides (such as DDT) permanently deactivate an enzyme that is essential to the nervous system.
THE STORY OF STUFF Annie Leonard 2010
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In 1974, the US Environmental Protection Agency licensed the nerve gas parathion trapped into nylon bubbles the size of pollen particles.
Honeybees in Danger 2009
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Unfortunately, this made no difference to EPA, which failed to ban the microencapsulated parathion that is so deadly to honeybees.
Honeybees in Danger 2009
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The foraging bee, if alive after its visit to the beautiful white flowers of almonds, for example, laden with invisible spheres of asphyxiating gas, would be bringing back to its home pollen and nectar mixed with parathion.
Honeybees in Danger 2009
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Unfortunately, this made no difference to EPA, which failed to ban the microencapsulated parathion that is so deadly to honeybees. '
Honeybees in Danger 2009
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An academic expert, Carl Johansen, professor of entomology at Washington State University in Pullman, Washington, called the microencapsulated methyl parathion "the most destructive bee poisoning insecticide ever developed."
Honeybees in Danger 2009
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