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BHC

American  
Chemistry.
  1. benzene hexachloride: the white to yellowish, crystalline, water-soluble, poisonous solid C 6 H 6 Cl 6 , used chiefly as an insecticide.


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The BHC argues the most efficient support the government could offer is through halving VAT for salons, because staff wages make up 60% of their costs.

From BBC ● Apr. 25, 2025

His stay at BHC Alhambra Hospital was short.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2022

Carol Jason had been a patient of BHC Fairfax Hospital for just minutes when she began rethinking the decision to check herself in to the psychiatric hospital.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 6, 2019

BHC persists a least eleven years, and heptachlor at least nine.

From The New Yorker ● Jan. 3, 2017

The only course open to a manufacturer determined to exclude BHC residues is to reject all produce treated with the chemical or grown on soils contaminated with it.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

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