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DDD

American

abbreviation

Chemistry.

dichlorodiphenyldichloroethane: a colorless or white crystalline metabolite of DDT, C 14 H 10 Cl 4 , used as an insecticide: agricultural use is prohibited in the United States.

Etymology

Origin of DDD

First recorded in 1945–50

Example Sentences

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“Once you are outside of the A through DDD cup sizes, then there’s the scary unknown,” DuMal says.

From Slate • Aug. 12, 2024

The researchers tested AIM's clinical exome reanalysis on a dataset of UDN and DDD cases and found that it was able to correctly identify 57% of diagnosable cases.

From Science Daily • Apr. 25, 2024

The California State Department of Public Health professed to see no hazard, yet in 1959 it required that the use of DDD in the lake be stopped.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 3, 2017

My sense of Palestine in the late 1940s is courtesy of DDD.

From Time • Jan. 23, 2016

But when someone thought to analyze the fatty tissues of the grebes, they were found to be loaded with DDD in the extraordinary concentration of 1600 parts per million.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

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