a white or yellowish powder existing in many isomeric forms. A mixture of isomers, including lindane, is used as an insecticide. Formula: C6H6Cl6
Examples of 'hexachlorocyclohexane' in a sentence
hexachlorocyclohexane
One of the synthetic mutants was found to have ∼80 fold more activity for β- and δ-hexachlorocyclohexane.
Rinku Pandey, Del Lucent, Kirti Kumari, Pooja Sharma, Rup Lal, John G. Oakeshott,Gunjan Pandey 2014, 'Kinetic and Sequence-Structure-Function Analysis of LinB Enzyme Variants with β- andδ-Hexachlorocyclohexane', PLoS ONE10.1371/journal.pone.0103632. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)