thallium sulfate

American  

Or thallous sulfate

noun

Chemistry.

1. a colorless, crystalline, water-soluble, poisonous solid, Tl 2 SO 4 , used chiefly as an insecticide and rodenticide.

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Example Sentences

Now, the Environmental Protection Agency has banned 19 products containing cyanide, thallium sulfate, strychnine and sodium monofluoracetate.

From Time Magazine Archive

The most successful poison against them is thallium sulfate baited with sugar � but all prewar supplies of thallium sulfate came from Germany and France.

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In 1957, the Texas legislature cut the allowable dose of thallium sulfate in a rat-poison mixture from 3% to 1%; the U.S.

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Of all the poisons man has concocted to combat his insect and rodent enemies, thallium sulfate is one of the most potent.

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