Word: dichloro
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...busy in a laboratory in Basel, looking for a drug to protect plants against insects. Trying one combination of chemicals after another, he finally found one that killed flies. He took some of the stuff home, and discovered that it killed mosquitoes too. Dr. Mller's compound was dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane...
Beetle Blaster. Last week the developers of DDT, Geigy Co., Inc., an old dye firm with branches in Switzerland and New York, told reporters in Manhattan how the chemical was discovered. Like penicillin, DDT was known long before its usefulness was appreciated. A complicated chemical (full name: dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane), whose chief ingredients are chlorine, alcohol and sulfuric acid, DDT was first synthesized in 1874 by a German student named Othmar Zeidler. He had no idea of its possibilities as an insecticide, dismissed his discovery in six lines in a German chemical journal...
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