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Bocon says that its mothproofing will last through as many as 25 dry cleanings and five washings.

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Adolph quit high school to work in the piece-goods business, later set up a woolen company with Sam, lost it, turned to manufacturing a mothproofing liquid, and lost that, too.

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Most moth repellents and mothproofing chemicals, says Moncrieff, are expensive, not very successful, and often wash out of the wool eventually.

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Chemists have recently developed effective new methods for permanent mothproofing of wool � for postwar use.

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A can of a mothproofing material containing DDD, for example, carries in very fine print the warning that its contents are under pressure and that it may burst if exposed to heat or open flame.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson