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2. Wood preservation - Wikipedia

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   Wood treated with this process is often used for cladding or siding, flooring, furniture and windows. For the control of pests that may be harbored in wood packaging material (i.e. crates and pallets), the ISPM 15 requires heat treatment of wood to 56 °C for 30 minutes to receive the HT stamp.

3. Boric acid - Wikipedia

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   Boric acid has also been widely used in the treatment of wood for protection against termites. The full complexity of its mechanism is not fully understood, but aside from causing dose-dependent mortality, boric acid causes dysbiosis in the Eastern Subterranean termite , leading to the opportunistic rise of insect pathogens that could be ...

4. Powderpost beetle - Wikipedia

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   Wood preservatives can be used to prevent beetle infestation. Common treatments may use borate, and frequently structural fumigation. Items that can be infested by powderpost beetles include wooden tools or tool handles, frames, furniture, gun stocks, books, toys, bamboo, flooring, and structural timbers.

5. Borax - Wikipedia

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   Borax is more effective than zinc borate for termite control but a 1997 paper concluded that exposing at least 10% of the total colony population was needed for effective treatment. In Japan the practice of laying newspapers treated with o-boric acid and borax under buildings has been effective in controlling Coptotermes formosanus and ...

6. Borate - Wikipedia

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   Borate ions occur, alone or with other anions, in many borate and borosilicate minerals such as borax, boracite, ulexite (boronatrocalcite) and colemanite.Borates also occur in seawater, where they make an important contribution to the absorption of low frequency sound in seawater.

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