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Diethyl 3 methylbenzamide is a chemical compound with the chemical formula C12H17NO It is created by the reaction of m toluic acid with thionyl chloride followed by a reaction with diethylamine It has a colourless or faintly yellow liquid appearance at room temperature It also has a faint pleasant odor It's mainly a non polar compound because most of the bonds that it consists of are non polar The only bond it has which is not non polar is the bond between carbon and oxygen which has an electronegativity difference of 1 0 Because of that Deet works the same way most non polar compounds do and interact with other compounds the same way most non polar molecules would Deet is the active ingredient in many insect repellents It is used to repel many insects including but not limited to Mosquitoes biting flies gnats and chiggers From the above list of insects it mainly repels against mosquitoes Mosquitoes mainly female ones bite humans to use the proteins and iron found in the human blood to make their eggs When mosquitoes detect humans they usually don't do it visually Instead they detect humans using receptors in their nerve cells called cpA neurons to detect humans They detect humans using things like the carbon dioxide humans produce skin odor body heat and lactic acid The way
