>> Boric acid is a low-toxicity mineral <<
Wow, I checked out quickly! Not a mineral.
>> low-toxicity ... with insecticidal, fungicidal, and herbicidal properties
IOW, not low-toxicity. But since that’s a relative term and I’m already checked out, OK, whatever...
>> Boric Acid, which kills roaches, water bugs, ants, fleas and silverfish. <<
Not a sentence...
WHO WROTE THIS?
boron is a mineral
I kind of butchered the article to make it a citation because it was long winded, and I wanted to include the key points for concise reading. So some of the blame for structure might be mine.
“WHO WROTE THIS?”
It was probably one of my Business Ethics students. Government schools teach them to write in fragments and fused sentences from an early age! :0
>>>> low-toxicity ... with insecticidal, fungicidal, and herbicidal properties
>> IOW, not low-toxicity. But since that’s a relative term and I’m already checked out, OK, whatever...
OK, I’ll pull back a little here. Turns out that its insecticidal properties are, believe it or not, mechanical, not chiefly pharmacological. At the microscopic level, boric acid condensate has extremely jagged edges which get inside the exoskeleton and tear insects apart when they walk through it. Better yet, because it doesn’t kill roaches FAST, they travel to where their corpses are cannibalized... and the boric acid rips the cannibals apart from the inside out. Mwahaha.