Word: asarinin
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Dates: during 1942-1942
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...Britain's Kenya Colony in Africa have cultivated the plant, now grow enough for their own use and the whole U.S. besides-if the U.S. can get it. Chemists, however, have discovered ways to stretch the pyrethrum supply by adding "synergistic" compounds-sesamin from sesame oil and asarinin from the southern prickly-ash bark-which make a more poisonous blend than pyrethrum alone...
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