Pesticide compositions including polymeric adjuvants
AssigneeSpecialty Fertilizer Products, LLC
InventorJohn Larry Sanders
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Abstract
Pesticidal compositions of improved effectiveness are provided, including a pesticide (e.g., an insecticide or herbicide) together with a copolymer adjuvant or additive selected from the group consisting of acid or salt copolymers containing individual quantities of maleic and itaconic moieties. The compositions of the invention provide multiple-fold increases in effectiveness, as compared with an equal amount of the pesticide in the absence of the copolymer.
Claims20
A pesticide composition comprising respective fractions of pesticide and polymer, said polymer fraction comprising at least about 60% by weight of a partial salt of a maleic-itaconic polymer including maleic and itaconic moieties, where the total weight of the polymer fraction is taken as 100% by weight, said polymer fraction being present in said composition at a level of from about 0.05-0.2% by weight, based upon the total weight of the composition taken as 100% by weight.
The composition of claim 11, at least about 80% of said polymer fraction being said maleic-itaconic polymer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.