Some Properties of Oil Emulsions Influencing Insecticidal Efficiency

Abstract

It is very difficult to isolate any one property of an emulsion and determine separately its action on insects. The physical and chemical properties of the oil, the kind and amount of emulsifying agent, and the stability of the emulsion are all so closely interlocked that one property usually cannot be varied without changing the others. There is good reason for believing that no two emulsions—and, very likely, no two lots of an emulsion made by the same formula—are exactly alike.