Cereals disinfection

He also developed a seed disinfectant that was free of poisonous mercury, then widely used in agriculture. The disinfectant helped control Tilletia, a smut fungus that causes diseases in cereal crops. The product was introduced to Swiss agriculture in 1942, when grain supplies were extremely precarious. 

Uses Disinfecting cereals and grains fumigant and soil insecticide dyestuffs odorant in methyl bromide fungicide rat exterminator organic synthesis war gas. 

Pentoses contained in hemicellulose are used to produce furfural, a useful industrial chemical, used as a solvent for resins and waxes and in petrochemical refining. It is also used as a feedstock for a range of aromatic substances (it has an almond odour) including preservatives, disinfectants and herbicides. Furfural can be converted to furfuryl alcohol and used to make resins for composite applications with fibreglass and other fibres. These are of interest in the aircraft component and automotive brake sectors. Furfural is commercially derived from acid hydrolysis of waste agricultural by-products, such as sugarcane bagasse, com cobs and cereal brans. Around 450 000 tonnes is produced by this method per year. 

Carboxin was the first seed disinfection agent with systemic activity used in cereals to control loose smut in barley. Today, newer fungicides have displaced carboxin. 

Fuberidazol is used to combat snow mold, and mainly in combination with other substances for cereal seed stock disinfection. It was one of the first organic fungicides able to replace organic mercury as a seed protectant. 

USE Disinfecting cereals and grains in synthesis, esp in nanuf of methyl violet fumigant soil insecticide war gas. Caution Produces severe sensory irritation in upper respiratory passages. Has strong iacrimatory proparties, produces... 

OTHER COMMENTS used in organic synthesis, especially in the preparation of methyl violet useful as a fumigant, a soil insecticide, tear gas, and a rat exterminator has also been used in disinfecting cereals and grains. 

Uses Synthetic flavoring agent and fragrance in foods and pharmaceuticals intermediate for prod, of pharmaceuticals and crop protection agents solvent for nitrocellulose, pharmaceuticals insecticide, fungicide, and larvicide for tobacco, cereals, dried acetone substitute org. synthesis disinfectant preservative reagent fragrance in cosmetics... 

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