
Metaldehyde is an organic compound with the formula (). It is used as a pesticide against slugs and snails. It is the cyclic tetramer of acetaldehyde.
Metaldehyde is an organic compound with the formula (). It is used as a pesticide against slugs and snails. It is the cyclic tetramer of acetaldehyde.
==Production and properties== Metaldehyde is flammable, toxic if ingested in large quantities, and irritating to the skin and eyes. It has a white crystalline appearance with a menthol odor.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).