Tobacco and its evil cousin, nicotine? They're good -- as a pesticide

Wednesday, October 27, 2010 - 11:30 in Mathematics & Economics

Tobacco, used on a small scale as a natural organic pesticide for hundreds of years, is getting new scientific attention as a potential mass-produced alternative to traditional commercial pesticides. That's the topic of a report in ACS' journal Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research.

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