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US 12,677,836 B2Granted
Copper based pesticides
AssigneeAgronaturalis Ltd
InventorRichard Milling
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Abstract
The effect of aqueous compositions of copper based fungicides is improved by including a mixture of sodium dioctyl sulfosuccinate and sodium lauryl sulphate surfactants in the aqueous composition which does not require the presence of a bicarbonate.
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A pesticide spray composition comprising an aqueous composition containing:
- i. 0.010 wt % to 3 wt % of copper metal derived from a copper salt, wherein the copper metal derived from the copper salt is selected from copper sulfate, copper hydroxide, cuprous oxide, copper oxychloride, copper ammonium carbonate, and copper octanoate;
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- ii. 0.0025 wt % to 10 wt % of a mixture of sodium dioctyl sulfosuccinate and sodium lauryl sulphate, wherein the mixture is a surfactant mixture;
- wherein the pesticide spray composition is free of bicarbonate salts.
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A pesticide formulation for mixing with water comprising:
- i. from 5 wt % to 30 wt % of copper metal derived from a copper salt, wherein the copper metal derived from the copper salt in the formulation is selected from copper sulfate, copper hydroxide cuprous oxide, copper oxychloride, copper ammonium carbonate, and copper octanoate;
- ii. from 3 wt % to 40 wt % sodium dioctyl sulfosuccinate;
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- iii. from 3 wt % to 40 wt % sodium lauryl sulfate.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.