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Hexachlorocyclohexane

Organochlorine chemical and an isomer of hexachlorocyclohexane

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  • Malaria: spraying a workers' settlement with DDT and benzine hexachloride (lindane) to kill the mosquitoes. Colour lithograph after A.D. Polumordvinov and others, 1953.

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    Malaria: spraying a workers' settlement with DDT and benzine hexachloride (lindane) to kill the mosquitoes. Colour lithograph after A.D. Polumordvinov and others, 1953.

    Polumordvinov, A.D., active 1945-1953. | Date: 1953 | Reference: 578483i
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    A hammer killing an insect; advertising Chloro-Kampfer insecticide (Chloro-Camphre, also called Gammol), containing Lindane. Colour lithograph by Seiler, ca. 1950.

    Seiler, graphic designer at Aarau, active approximately 1950. | Date: [1950?] | Reference: 5145i
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    Lindane : monograph of an insecticide / E. Ulmann ; authors C. Blaquiere [and others] ; [transl. from the German and French texts].

    Ulmann, Eckart. | Date: 1972
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    A Colorado potato beetle (Colorado beetle); advertising Gesarol-Gamma brand of DDT insecticide for use against agricultural pests. Colour lithograph, 1954 (?).

    | Date: [1954?] | Reference: 659721i

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