Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A white or tan solid, C10H5Cl7, formerly used as a pesticide, that is highly toxic to humans and is a suspected carcinogen.

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  • noun An organochlorine compound formerly used as an insecticide.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[hepta– + chlor(ine).]

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Examples

  • To start with, the Stockholm Convention identified twelve top-priority POPs: eight pesticides (aldrin, chlordane, DDT, dieldrin, endrin, heptachlor, mirex, and toxaphene); two industrial chemicals (the hexachlorobenzenes (HCBs) and the polychlorinated biphenyls PCBs); and two groups of industrial by-products (dioxins and furans).

    THE STORY OF STUFF Annie Leonard 2010

  • To start with, the Stockholm Convention identified twelve top-priority POPs: eight pesticides (aldrin, chlordane, DDT, dieldrin, endrin, heptachlor, mirex, and toxaphene); two industrial chemicals (the hexachlorobenzenes (HCBs) and the polychlorinated biphenyls PCBs); and two groups of industrial by-products (dioxins and furans).

    THE STORY OF STUFF Annie Leonard 2010

  • To start with, the Stockholm Convention identified twelve top-priority POPs: eight pesticides (aldrin, chlordane, DDT, dieldrin, endrin, heptachlor, mirex, and toxaphene); two industrial chemicals (the hexachlorobenzenes (HCBs) and the polychlorinated biphenyls PCBs); and two groups of industrial by-products (dioxins and furans).

    THE STORY OF STUFF Annie Leonard 2010

  • To start with, the Stockholm Convention identified twelve top-priority POPs: eight pesticides (aldrin, chlordane, DDT, dieldrin, endrin, heptachlor, mirex, and toxaphene); two industrial chemicals (the hexachlorobenzenes (HCBs) and the polychlorinated biphenyls PCBs); and two groups of industrial by-products (dioxins and furans).

    THE STORY OF STUFF Annie Leonard 2010

  • The pesticide heptachlor affects steroid hormone secretion in isolated follicular and luteal cells of rat [An article from: Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, Part C] by J.A. Oduma

    OpEdNews - Quicklink: US Drinking Water and Watersheds Widely Contaminated by Hormone Disrupting Pesticide, Atrazine 2009

  • Dichlorodiphenyl-dichloroethene polychlorinated biphenyls dieldrin chlordane heptachlor polychlorinated dibenzodioxins.

    Archive 2008-10-01 doyle 2008

  • Dichlorodiphenyl-dichloroethene polychlorinated biphenyls dieldrin chlordane heptachlor polychlorinated dibenzodioxins.

    Another friend with breast cancer doyle 2008

  • The samples contained DDT and two break-down chemicals from that pesticide, plus the chemicals endrin, lindane, heptachlor, chlordane, toxaphene, aldrin and dieldrin.

    Your Right Hand Thief 2005

  • The samples contained DDT and two break-down chemicals from that pesticide, plus the chemicals endrin, lindane, heptachlor, chlordane, toxaphene, aldrin and dieldrin.

    Archive 2005-01-01 2005

  • Australia has already stopped producing and using most of the chemicals included in the agreement (aldrin, DDT, dieldrin, endrin, chlordane, HCB, heptachlor, toxaphene and PCBs).

    Australia to Sign Agreement to Reduce Toxic Pollution - Media release - Minister for Foreign Affairs 2001

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