Talk:Bromomethane
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[edit] This is banned?
Methyl Bromide is listed on a number of extension service websites as the recommended treatment for southern blight. Is this out of date now? --SB_Johnny|talk|books 12:19, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
- As the article makes clear, methyl bromide is still used in a number of applications, although I'm not sure why it would be "recommended" for southern blight (a fungal disease). In all cases, users of methyl bromide are recommended to consider other possible treatments. Physchim62 (talk) 17:48, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Natural Sources - references?
What references document the natural production of bromomethane in oceans and marshes? This chemical is widely used as a groundwater monitoring parameter. If it is naturally present, even at very low concentrations, in marsh environments it will be inappropriate for monitoring purposes.
The link to the IARC monograph does not work.
AlbionWood 17:03, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
Some support for natural plant sources : http://www.americanscientist.org/template/AssetDetail/assetid/34006/page/3 The links I've found suggest, but not definitively, that bromomethane might be produced by certain seaweeds. I haven't seen any credible evidence that freshwater, marsh, or on-land plants produce the chemical.
Dialectric (talk) 19:35, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
