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Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans and Agent Orange Exposure. Bethesda, Maryland: National Academies Press. ISBN 9780309162470. PMID 24983057. Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans and Agent Orange Exposure. Washington, D.C.: National Academies Press. June 1, 2011. ISBN 978-0309216210. OCLC 742631788. "Summary". Post-Vietnam Dioxin Exposure in Agent ...
Agent Blue is chemically unrelated to the more infamous Agent Orange and other herbicides used during the war. Agent Blue, a herbicide containing cacodylic acid and sodium cacodylate, was used by the United States military during the Vietnam War to destroy plant life, particularly in rice paddies, which was a major food source for the Viet Cong ...
Agent Orange is a chemical herbicide and defoliant, one of the tactical use Rainbow Herbicides. It was used by the U.S. military as part of its herbicidal warfare program, Operation Ranch Hand, [1] during the Vietnam War from 1961 to 1971. [2] The U.S. was strongly influenced by the British who used Agent Orange during the Malayan Emergency.
Agent Orange III: 66.6% n-butyl 2,4-D and 33.3% n-butyl ester 2,4,5-T. [12] Enhanced Agent Orange, Orange Plus, Super Orange (SO), or DOW Herbicide M-3393: standardized Agent Orange mixture of 2,4-D and 2,4,5-T combined with an oil-based mixture of picloram, a proprietary Dow Chemical product called Tordon 101, an ingredient of Agent White. [13 ...
The Rainbow Herbicides are a group of tactical-use chemical weapons used by the United States military in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War.Success with Project AGILE field tests in 1961 with herbicides in South Vietnam was inspired by the British use of herbicides and defoliants during the Malayan Emergency in the 1950s, which led to the formal herbicidal program Trail Dust (see Operation ...
The harbour's water has been discoloured for more than two years [BBC] A cross-government team is to be set up in a bid to tackle a long-running issue with brown and orange harbour water, an MP says.
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Agent Orange, a defoliant used by the British in the Malayan Emergency and the U.S. in the Vietnam War, was equal parts 2,4,5-T and 2,4-D (2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid). 2,4,5-T itself is toxic with a NOAEL of 3 mg/kg/day and a LOAEL of 10 mg/kg/day. [3] Agent Pink contained 100% 2,4,5-T (dioxin