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What does heptachlor mean?

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Noun
  1. An organochlorine compound formerly used as an insecticide.
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Those include DDT, dieldrin, toxaphene, heptachlor, and alpha-chlordane.
Snyder and Mulder reported that exposure of Homarus americanus larvae to the cyclodiene pesticide heptachlor can cause a delay in molting.
According to Rosene, agricultural employees harassed him by following him, bugging his phone, and laying a trail of heptachlor between his motel room and car.
Organochlorine insecticides include chemicals such as DDT, methoxychlor, heptachlor, chlordane, toxaphene, aldrin, endrin, dieldrin, and lindane.
The pollutants are aldrin, chlordane, DDT, dieldrin, dioxins, endrin, furans, heptachlor, hexachlorobenzene, mirex, PCBs and toxaphene.
The 11 pesticides found in the samples were lindane and its isomers, heptachlor, epoxide heptachlor, aldrin, endosulfan II, endrin, DDD and methoxychlor.

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