What is the full form of DDT?

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Its Dichloro Diphenyl Trichloro Ethane. Its an insecticide which is very widely used in third world countries like India not very far ago. the hazards with it though made the authorities made it to less popular in the later years. One of the reasons being its carcinogenicity.
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Its also a pesticide First synthesized in 1874, DDT's insecticidal action was discovered by the Swiss chemist Paul Hermann Müller in 1939. It was then used in the second half of World War II to control malaria and typhus among civilians and troops. After the war, DDT was made available for use as an...
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Its also a pesticide First synthesized in 1874, DDT's insecticidal action was discovered by the Swiss chemist Paul Hermann Müller in 1939. It was then used in the second half of World War II to control malaria and typhus among civilians and troops. After the war, DDT was made available for use as an agricultural insecticide and its production and use duly increased.[6] Müller was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for his discovery of the high efficiency of DDT against several insects read less
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The full form of DDT in case biology or in Chemistry Dichloro Diphenyl Trichloroethane, for Technology the full form of DDT is Data- Driven Testing.
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