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Related: About this forumDoes anyone know what this chemical is?
Disodium iminodiacetate
Can it take the place of an aldehyde in a formula for weed killers?
A researcher I knew told me back circa 1999 or 2000 that RoundUpm Nonsanto's number One Best Selling week Killer, had utilized formaldehyde as the aldehyde needed to break the glyphosate down into a spray-able mixture. (Left to its own devices, glyphosate would remain in cake formula and you'd have to sprinkle it over whatever weeds you wanted to kill, which would not make it popular.)
Monsanto is no longer using the formaldehyde, so I am trying to figure out what it is using now as the aldehyde.
VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)truedelphi
(32,324 posts)RoundUp will not kill your week!
My typing is pretty bad today. Jammed my left index finger in garage door slat on Saturday, and almost cut the tip of the finger off.
NRaleighLiberal
(60,014 posts)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iminodiacetic_acid
Extremely different chemical properties from aldehydes....perhaps some other process? It seems to be used as a chelation agent for metals...