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192:, he married Gladys May Unwin (1903–1987). In 1930 E. C. Large became an engineer (and later a manager) in the Colloidal Section of Einstein's Electro-Chemical Processes Ltd. at Acton, Middlesex. There he worked under Emil Hatscheck (1868–1944). Hatschek developed a practical and inexpensive colloidal copper fungicide marketed under the trade name of Bouisol. From 1930 to 1945, Large was closely associated with the use of Bouisol and gradually became an expert in mycology and phytopathology. In the 1930s he was developed a dry bentonite-copper-oxychloride fungicide, usable for dusting or spraying plants. In 1936,
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gives evaluations of Large's fiction, an account of his life, a comprehensive bibliography of his published writings, and a selection of his reportage, musings, travel essays, and book reviews.
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with fungicidal chemicals. Large found that time-based plots of the progression of potato blight, in terms of the percentage of plants destroyed, generally have a sigmoid, or
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