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heptachlor /ˈhɛptəklɔː /noun [mass noun]A chlorinated hydrocarbon used as an insecticide.- Chemical formula: C10H5Cl7.
The company that manufactured and sold the pesticides chlordane and heptachlor, the Velsicol Chemical Company of Chicago, threatened to sue Houghton Mifflin....- The sequence of events made no sense: the cows had died several months after the last application of insecticide, but heptachlor volatilized in a few weeks.
- The mystery was not what had killed the cows - the insecticides had done that - but ‘who is safeguarding the consumer to see that no residues of dieldrin or heptachlor are appearing in the milk?’
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