Patent ID: 6071857
Filing Date: 2000-06-06
Classification: A01N,Y10S

Abstract:
A liquid pesticidal composition comprising a hydrophobic pesticide or mixture of pesticides dissolved in an organic solvent together with surfactants, which composition is substantially free of water and comprising as said surfactants(1) a butanol-ethoxylate/propoxylate blockcopolymer having 12-30 mol ethoxylate and 16-48 mol propoxylate, in combination with(2) a branched C.sub.8 -C.sub.18 alcohol ethoxylate having 5-10 mol ethoxylate, and/or(3) a tristyrenephenol-ethoxylate having 8-30 mol ethoxylate, or its phosphate or salt thereof;wherein said organic solvent is water-immiscible and selected from the group consisting of aliphatic and aromatic hydrocarbons, phthalates, ethers and esters, fatty acid esters, lactones, ketones, castor oil, soybean oil, cottonseed oil and possible methyl esters thereof, and epoxidised coconut or soybean oil or wherein said organic solvent is water miscible and selected from the group consisting of alcohols, glycols N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone, tetramethylurea, gamma-butyrolactone, dimethylsuloxide N,N-dimethylacetamid, and dimethylformamide;whereby a storage stable composition is obtained.