Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Containing the basic radical cacodyl.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or derived from, cacodyl.
- adjective a white, crystalline, deliquescent substance, (CH3)2AsO.OH, obtained by the oxidation of cacodyl, and having the properties of an exceedingly stable acid; -- also called
alkargen .
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- adjective Of or pertaining to
cacodylic acid or its derivatives
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- adjective of or relating to cacodyl
Etymologies
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Examples
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However, organic arsenic compounds, namely cacodylic acid, disodium methylarsenate (DSMA), and monosodium methylarsenate (MSMA), are used, as yet, as pesticides — principally on cotton.
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Agent Blue contained cacodylic acid, an arsenic compound, and was sprayed at the behest of a South Vietnamese president who thought poisoning his own people was a good thing because they were his enemies.
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They found no evidence of adverse effects on bird life or mammals from the use of agent blue (cacodylic acid) which had been employed primarily against rice and other crops.
Operation Ranch Hand Buckingham, William A. 1982
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Concerning the cacodylic acid used in blue, Minarik and Darrow said that field tests had shown that sensitive crops could be safely planted within days of a spraying with blue even at rates greater than those normally used in Vietnam.
Operation Ranch Hand Buckingham, William A. 1982
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On the question of lethal toxicity to human or animals, the researchers found that, except for cacodylic acid, this was unlikely and should not be a matter of great concern.
Operation Ranch Hand Buckingham, William A. 1982
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Phase I, to begin within twenty days, would spray 334.5 square miles of manioc and rice crops with 2,4,5-T and cacodylic acid.
Operation Ranch Hand Buckingham, William A. 1982
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Because drying is its primary observable effect, cacodylic acid is often labeled as a dessicant.
Operation Ranch Hand Buckingham, William A. 1982
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Twenty thousand gallons of pink and green herbicides and fifteen thousand pounds of cacodylic acid were already in Saigon.
Operation Ranch Hand Buckingham, William A. 1982
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They recommended more research on cacodylic acid, the main component of herbicide blue, and on the effects of
Operation Ranch Hand Buckingham, William A. 1982
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A shipment of 15,000 pounds of cacodylic acid (blue) and 20,000 gallons of pink and green herbicides for use in crop destruction had by this time arrived unannounced in Saigon by military aircraft, and had bypassed ICC inspection.
Operation Ranch Hand Buckingham, William A. 1982
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