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The practice of applying pesticides on grains of foodstuffs in greater quantities for storage has become a norm without eliminating them before selling to consumers. This research has determined the environmental nexus to kinematic properties with the potency to eliminate such pesticides in foodstuffs before preparation for consumption. Foodstuff samples of white beans, red guinea corn, and white maize were considered. Three of the most patronised pesticides; aluminium phosphide, dichlorvos with chlorpyrifos, and permethrin in Benue Markets, were considered and analysed for kinematic properties. The results showed that solubility, density and thermal volatility are kinematic properties of pesticide nexus for elimination from grain foodstuff in aqueous solvent environments upon analysis before and after treatments using UV-visible spectrophotometer. The solubility state of dichlorvos with chlorpyrifos in aqueous solvents indicates that both are insoluble with low density to float on the aqueous environment and easily eliminated by decantation. Also, by thermal fusion through hot aqueous before mixing with foodstuff, it enhances instant volatility kinematic effect of dichlorvos with chlorpyrifos to evaporate into the air, leaving the grain foodstuff free in aqueous. Furthermore washings of foodstuff in hot aqueous dilute and eliminate dichlorvos with chlorpyrifos out of foodstuff. Permethrin and aluminium phosphide are sparingly insoluble in aqueous environments, whereas parts of these float while parts settle under foodstuff in aqueous environments due to density. The first elimination was decantation followed by flood sieving of grain foodstuff with aqueous solvents severally, eliminates these micro pesticides to a bearable minimum as shown in results.
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