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HHDN
The abbreviation for the scientific name of aldrin. (The scientific name for aldrin [1,2,3,4,10,10-hexachloro-1,4,4á,5,8,8á-hexahydro-1,4-endo,exo-5,8-dimethanonaphthalene] is not easy to recite or recall.) See: Aldrin and dieldrin
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