The description says it's "99% boric acid" -- what's the other 1%? Is it some other pesticide chemical that I need to research?
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The other 1% is silica. Source: http://www.btusupply.com/p-182517-16oz-boric-acid.aspx . Sears has the silica listed as well. It's to prevent clumping and caking of the boric acid.
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I really cannot say... unfortunately... I do agree though that it is not good for your pets. I've bought others from the hardware store that didn't work as well for me... but, you can give it a try... I'm not sure what the difference is... but, I bought the little pills too and through them under the house... I think they and the powder have sugar in them... to attract the bugs into eating it.. Sorry... if I get my son to get the bottle out of the garage, I'll look...
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Probably impurities. Its a very low grad inexpensive powder. Not pet friendly though! Buy t from your local hardware store - its usually less than half the price of this.
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I don't use any chemical on or around my garden and plants. I eat them and feed them to my children. Some fertilizer, but natural. No insecticides. And they came that way...they didn't end up that way.
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Purified water 98.3%, inactive ingredients: boric acid, sodium borate, sodium chloride.
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Boric acid will probably work better, because we have seen our friends back again and again with this Safer product. So sorry! I know this summer has been a tough one and we have to be careful with all the products that are being put out there, could be harmful to pets and human life. SAFER is not safer because the label says so, this product says 20 percent OTHER ingredient, I don't know how they get away with putting that out there. I wished I had been more careful. Good luck!
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Have no idea--I bought it for cockroaches and it did not work very well-at least it is not toxic
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Maybe the Bayer website can tell you the chemical, I finished the bottle last summer. I will add that it definitely had a good effect on controlling the Bermuda grass, but I put it on 3 times a year for 2 years before the stuff finally died completely.
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Boric acid, sodium borate, & sodium chloride are the inactive ingredients. Nothing on the bottle mentions preservative status
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Not sure because label states Bifenthrin .115% and "other ingredients 99.885%" but not state what the other ingredients are. I suppose you could call the manufacturer to find the mysterious unlabeled ingredients :)Hope this is somewhat helpful. It did help my milipedes problem, but not completely.
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As Robbin Rohner responded, "Active Ingredient DEET 98.11% other ingredients 1.89%"This is what my bottle says as well. This should mean that 98.11% of the product is DEET. If you are wondering about the purity of the active ingredient, you would need to contact the manufacturer.
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The best way to understand the attributes of "Food Grade Diatomaceous Earth" is to just type that into your computer, but to answer your question it is about 85% silica. Don't let this scare you off as this product has many very good qualities. I mix this with my chicken feed and have been doing this for several years. My wife uses it in her garden as a pest control and i use it as a dust bed for my chickens to dust in to clean them from mights and other parasites common to chickens. I am a safety and health professional in the mining industry and know about the silica that comes from the mining process. I have messed with Diatomaceous Earth for over 40 years of and on and have had no - problems with it only + results. Howard J. Campbell of Oracle, AZ 85623
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I don't know that it would be organic but it is considered a safe insecticide when considering toxic chemicals. It is an organism from the ground and I don't know if they do anything special to the ground that it comes from or if it is even grown in earth for manufacturing purposes. It is used in organic farming.
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Inactive ingredients are boric acid, sodium borate, & sodium chloride. The rest is purified water. Hope this helps
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Lawrence, not being a Bayer chemist nor a chemist at all, I can only respond to your query with 1) "Doubt it highly." and 2) "No Idea at all." I'd add that not even the famous "Agent Orange" was so capable. There are, however, many defoliants for home use available here at Amazon. Ortho's Weed-B-Gone is just one of the choices. Perhaps it might be best to email Bayer or Ortho for more options. Regards and good luck, Pete.
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September 2015 and Boric Acid is not a listed ingredient on the bottle I received.
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Says on the box it is Sodium Tetraborate, a natural mineral. It is not the same as boric acid.
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Active Ingredient: 1.3% Nylar Note this will not kill .. you will need an insecticide along with the igr.
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They are similar, but not the same. Borax and boric acid are both chemical compounds that contain the element boron. The chemical name for borax is sodium tetraborate decahydrate, and the molecular formula is B4Na2O7*10H2O. The molecular formula for boric acid is BH3O3. There are many similarities between borax and boric acid, such as appearance, toxicity, uses and even some physical properties. Borax is used to artificially age wood, to fireproof fabrics and wood, in soldering preparations, in glazes and enamels, for curing and preserving skins, in the manufacture of glass, in cleaning products, as a corrosion inhibitor in antifreeze, in adhesives, in metal alloys and to prevent mold on citrus. Boric acid is used to weatherproof wood, in the manufacture of cements, as a nuclear-reactor cooling water additive, as an insecticide, as a preservative, in welding flux, to impregnate wicks, in the manufacture of soap, in heat-resistant glass and in the manufacturing processes of other boron compounds. Read more : http://www.ehow.com/about_5419217_borax-vs-boric-acid.html