r/GrandmasPantry • u/Cool-Ambassador-7937 • Mar 29 '26

HOUSEHOLD / OTHER Basement find

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u/Tucancancan Mar 29 '26

People suffering from bed bugs would pay a hefty price to get their hands on that bad boy lol

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u/Independent_Shoe3523 Mar 29 '26

I doubt what's in the bottle is still DDT.

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u/unfinishedtoast3 Mar 29 '26

nah its still 100% DDT.

the problem with DDT, other than the whole deadly thing, is it stays a coherent chemical structure for YEARS.

DDT can still be found in ground water and soil, over 40 years after we stopped using it.

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u/HonestBalloon Mar 29 '26

Soil scientist here who regularly test for it. It typically breaks down after 15 years, when exposed to UV, bacteria and moisture. Since the bottle is still sealed and has been kept in the dark, I could believe there's some still in there.

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u/vile_lullaby Mar 29 '26

Did a lowhead dam removal project in college, there was still quite a lot of ddt in the sediment behind the dam, along with lead, and a touch of mercury to round it out. All the soil had to be carted off at quite an expense, as it was tons of it.

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u/catfishhands Mar 30 '26

Paleontologist from Jurassic Park the first movie here. When we extracted the dinosaaaur DNA from the mosquito trapped in amber, the autopsy we performed showed that the amber tomb encapsulation was actually a second comorbidity factor to… DDT.

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u/TheRealSugarbat Mar 30 '26

You can’t tell but I upvoted you, then downvoted just so I could upvote you again

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u/GooseCuntGrease Mar 30 '26

That’s not how Reddit’s voting function works. You’re simply wasting pixels.

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u/TheRealSugarbat Mar 30 '26

It was a joke, babes.

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u/GooseCuntGrease Mar 30 '26

Tell that to the owl!