thiram

[ thahy-ram ]

noun

, Chemistry.

1. a white, crystalline compound, C 6 H 12 N 2 S 4 , insoluble in water, slightly soluble in alcohol, soluble in benzene and acetone, used as a vulcanizer and accelerator for rubber and as a fungicide, bacteriostat, and seed disinfectant.

Word History and Origins

Origin of thiram¹

1945–50; alteration of thiuram, equivalent to thi(o)ur(ea) + -am, as in carbamyl or carbamic

Example Sentences

Once there, it broke down into other chemicals - one known as thiram - that is even more toxic than the original HMP-2000.

From Washington Times

Registration of chemicals abamectin and thiram were also suspended by the August ruling pending the Anvisa re-evaluation.

From Reuters

This type of disease can now be completely eliminated by a process developed at the National Vegetable Research Station … The treatment is first to soak seed for twenty-four hours in a solution containing 0.2 per cent of the fungicide ‘Thiram’ at 30 oC.

From Nature

The experiment — the largest of its kind so far — involved 16 fields across southern Sweden: 8 fields were planted with seeds treated with the systemic insecticide clothianidin, the pyrethroid insecticide β-cyfluthrin and the fungicide thiram, and 8 control fields were treated solely with thiram.

From Nature

It was a fungicide, and its active ingredient was thiram, a notorious cause of allergies.

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