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Arsenate is removed by being exchanged for phosphate in the mineral brushite, a crystalline structure found in the stones.
Archive 2007-07-01 Heather McDougal 2007
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Arsenate is removed by being exchanged for phosphate in the mineral brushite, a crystalline structure found in the stones.
Weird Stones Heather McDougal 2007
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Arsenate of lead alone, as was to be expected, had little or no effect upon the aphides.
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Arsenate of lead is used at the rate of 2 pounds to each 50 gallons of water.
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Arsenate of lead, if properly applied at the right time, will keep any of these insects in check.
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Arsenate of lead may be used without danger of burning the foliage as strong as five or six pounds to fifty gallons of water, but three pounds is the usual and a sufficient amount for the control of any apple insect for which it is efficacious.
Apple Growing M. C. Burritt
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Advantages of Arsenate of Lead: The insecticides in most common use are Arsenate of Lead and Paris Green but on account of the several advantages of the Arsenate it is gaining in popularity.
Tobacco Virginia-Carolina Chemical Corp. Crop Book Dept. 1915
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In spraying the plant-beds for the fleat beetle it is used at the rate of 8 or 10 pounds of Arsenate to 50 gallons of water.
Tobacco Virginia-Carolina Chemical Corp. Crop Book Dept. 1915
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This, however, is too strong for use in the field, and for such purpose the proportion should be reduced to 4 pounds of Arsenate to 50 gallons of water, though in early spring and before hot weather begins, the proportion may be as high as 5 or 6 pounds to 50 gallons of water.
Tobacco Virginia-Carolina Chemical Corp. Crop Book Dept. 1915
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Page 43 of Lead sticks to the leaves better and longer than Paris Green and does not cause the burning of the leaves sometimes produced by Paris Green, consequently a stronger solution of the Arsenate may be used.
Tobacco Virginia-Carolina Chemical Corp. Crop Book Dept. 1915
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