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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

In a statement, BHC said its “protocol includes providing every discharging patient with a complete aftercare plan signed off by our multi-disciplinary care team.”

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

In some areas of Egypt, flies had already become resistant to DDT by 1948; BHC was substituted but was effective for less than a year.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson