DDT's insecticidal action was discovered by the Swiss chemist Paul Hermann Müller in 1939. DDT was used in the second half of World War II to limit the spread of the insect-borne …

Mar 17, 2025 · DDT, a synthetic insecticide that belongs to the family of organic halogen compounds and is highly toxic toward a variety of insects as a contact poison that apparently …

Mar 6, 2025 · DDT (dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane) was developed as the first of the modern synthetic insecticides in the 1940s. It was initially used with great effect to combat malaria, …

Jul 20, 2021 · DDT is a synthetic insecticide belonging to a class of chemicals called organochlorides. Also known as dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane, it is one of the most …

Apr 25, 2017 · DDT is still sometimes used to fight malaria. Dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane, popularly referred to as DDT, is an organochlorine that was first synthesized in 1874. It was …

DDT, or dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, is a chemical compound with the formula C 14 H 9 Cl 5. Under standard conditions for temperature and pressure (STP), this chemical compound …

Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) is an organochlorine insecticide that had a broad range of agricultural and nonagricultural applications in the United States and worldwide beginning in …

Mar 25, 2025 · DDT, short for dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, was once widely used as a pesticide in the United States and beyond. But DDT didn’t just harm wildlife—it harmed ...

DDT is an organo-chlorine, synthesized in 1874 but its insecticidal properties were discovered in 1939. DDT was first used during the World War II to combat malaria and typhus among …

DDT stands for Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, a synthetic insecticide used to kill mosquitoes and crop pests. DDT was banned due to its harmful environmental effects, bioaccumulation in …