Methylmercuric dicyanamide is a

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used as a

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for crops such as

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, and

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. As of 1998, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency listed it as an unregistered pesticide in the

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.Methylmercuric dicyanamide
at cameochemicals.noaa.org. Although named as a

dicyanamide Dicyanamide, also known as dicyanamine, is an anion having the formula . It contains two cyanide groups bound to a central nitrogen anion. The chemical is formed by decomposition of 2-cyanoguanidine. It is used extensively as a counterion of org ...

, the major organic structure is a 2-cyanoguanidino group.

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{{reflist Cyanamides Mercury(II) compounds