phorate

7 letters · noun · scores 1,800 in SpellHuntr

noun

An organophosphorus compound with chemical formula C₈H₄O₃, used as a pesticide.

Phorate in a sentence

"Unlabelled phorate and terbufos were purified by Florisil column chromatography according to the method of Patchett and Batchelder."

Five of these chemicals – naled, methamidophos, trichlorfon, chlorpyrifos and phorate – showed up in at least 10% of the cord blood samples.

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