Glyphosate(agrochemical,herbicide)
Common name: Glyphosate
Chemical name: N-(phosphonomethyl) glycine
Physical and chemical properties:
Pure product is white crystal with m.p. of 200. Bulk density is 0.5g/cm3. Solubility at 25; 12g/l water, It's insoluble in common organic solvents. I.P.A. is completely soluble in water and strongly absorbed by soil. Solution are corrosive to iron and galvanized steel. It has no flammability and explosicity, stable at room temperature.
Toxicity:
Acute oral LD50 of technical to rats is 5370mg/kg, acute dermal LD50 to 0rabbits is more than 5000 mg/kg. No record of teratogenicity, metagenicity and carcinogenicity. It is slight irritative to eyes and skin, low toxic to fish and aquatic animal, non-toxic to birds.
Formulation and specification:
| Technical | 62 I.P.A.WSC | 41 I.P.A.WSC | 10 WSC |
Appearance | white powder | light yellow liquid | light yellow liquid | light yellow liquid |
Glyphosate content ,%(m/m) | 95.0 min | 62±1.0 | 41±1.0 | 10±1.0 |
PH value |
| 4.0-7.0 | 4.5-7.0 | 4.0-8.0 |
Weight loss after drying %(m/m) | 1.0 max | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Insoluble in water %(m/m) | 0.2 max | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Gravity | 0 | 0 | 1.16-1.17 | 0 |
Packing: In iron drums with 100kg net each or in 25kg woven bags with plastic bags inside (for technical), plastic volume with 25 ,10, 5 liter net each (for 41 monoisopropy ammonium salt), plastic container with 30 ,2 liter net each (for 10 WSC).
Uses:Glyphosate is a non-selective, non-residual herbicide used against annual or biennial herbaceous monocotylendon,herbaceous dicotylendon and perenuial malignant weeds, such as imperater cylin-drica Beuuv, cyperus rotandus linn,etc.It is absorbed by foiage and translocated through plant and very effective on deep-roots perennial species.It is widely used in forest, rubber, mulberry, tea, fruit,sugarcane and etc
non-selective, non-residual (agrochemical,herbicide)
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