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- Flit abstract "Flit is the brand name for an insecticide.The original product, invented by chemist Dr. Franklin C. Nelson and launched in 1923 and mainly intended for killing flies and mosquitoes, was mineral oil based and manufactured by the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey before the company, now part of ExxonMobil, renamed itself first Esso and later Exxon. The Esso formulation contained 5% DDT in the late 1940s and early 1950s, before the negative environmental impact of DDT was widely understood. Later marketed as "FLIT MLO," it has since been discontinued. A hand-operated device called a Flit gun was commonly used to perform the spraying.The Flit brand name has been reused for another insecticide product, with the primary active ingredient of permethrin, marketed by Clarke Mosquito Control. The current product is most often used to control adult mosquitoes. Spraying it into the air kills adult mosquitoes that are present and then by settling onto surfaces it kills mosquitoes that may later land.".
- Flit thumbnail FLIT_Spray_Can_1.jpg?width=300.
- Flit wikiPageID "1811719".
- Flit wikiPageRevisionID "600438722".
- Flit hasPhotoCollection Flit.
- Flit subject Category:Insecticide_brands.
- Flit subject Category:Phrases.
- Flit subject Category:Works_by_Dr._Seuss.
- Flit comment "Flit is the brand name for an insecticide.The original product, invented by chemist Dr. Franklin C. Nelson and launched in 1923 and mainly intended for killing flies and mosquitoes, was mineral oil based and manufactured by the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey before the company, now part of ExxonMobil, renamed itself first Esso and later Exxon. The Esso formulation contained 5% DDT in the late 1940s and early 1950s, before the negative environmental impact of DDT was widely understood.".
- Flit label "Flit".
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- Flit wasDerivedFrom Flit?oldid=600438722.
- Flit depiction FLIT_Spray_Can_1.jpg.
- Flit isPrimaryTopicOf Flit.