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- Metaldehyde is an organic
compound with the formula (CH3CHO)4.
- Metaldehyde is a white
crystalline substance isomeric with, and obtained from, acetic aldehyde
by polymerization, and reconvertible into the same.
- Metaldehyde (C8H16O4) is
not a complicated chemical. In its base form, it is a white crystalline
powder that does
not dissolve in water.
Uses
- Metaldehyde is a
selective pesticide used by farmers and gardeners to control slugs
and snails in a wide variety of crops.
- It is commonly used as
a pesticide against slugs, snails, and other gastropods.
- Metaldehyde is also
used as a camping fuel.
- Metaldehyde is used in
Washington table beet seed production.
- Metaldehyde is a
molluscicide used to control snails and slugs on a wide variety of
sites in agriculture and home gardens, including fruit and vegetable
crops, ornamentals, lawns and turf.
Report
- More recently,
other companies in the midlands, eastern, south east and south
of England have detected metaldehyde in raw waters.
- Metaldehyde is the
active ingredient in most snail and slug baits, and has been in
use in Australia for many years.
Farmers apply around 250 tonnes of metaldehyde (an active
substance in slug pellets) to agricultural land every year. It
helps to protect cereal, oil seed rape and other crops from slug
damage.
- Metaldehyde is
contained in slug pellets used by 80% of farmers applying a
molluscicide as part of their
control strategy for the UK’s most damaging pest. It is reported
that slugs account for 70% of all crop pest
problems.
- Metaldehyde is a
very important chemical in grass seed production in western
Oregon. It is estimated that 185,000 of Oregon’s 490,000 acres
of grass seed are treated with metaldehyde each year.
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