Polyolefinic adjuvants
AssigneeDeerpoint Industries, Inc.
InventorsDeborah L. Miller, John C. Miller
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Abstract
A biocide composition including an active material selected from the group consisting of insecticides, herbicides, fungicides and rodenticides, and an aqueous polyolefinic emulsion. Alternatively, the composition can include an active material such as a nutrient or plant growth regulator and the polyolefin can be present in other suitable media to provide, in any embodiment, improved retention/sticker properties.
Claims12
The method of treating soil and vegetative surfaces which comprises coating these surfaces with an active material selected from the group consisting of insecticides, herbicides, fungicides, rodenticides, nutrients, plant growth regulators, pheromones and defoliants which active material is combined with an adjuvant composition which is an emulsion comprising an aqueous phase which contains a surfactant and a polymer consisting essentially of a methyl-substituted polyolefin having a molecular weight of about 300-30,000, whereby the active material is distributed more evenly over the soil and vegetative surfaces and is retained thereon for a longer period of time.
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