| Agent Orange |
a herbicide used in the Vietnam War to defoliate forest areas
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| Agent Orange |
A toxic herbicide and defoliant used by the US during the Vietnam War to clear dense jungle foliage in which enemy forces hid. The name comes from the orange stripe on the barrels that stored the chemical.
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| Agent Orange |
A toxic herbicide and defoliant used in the Vietnam conflict, containing 2,4,5-trichlorophen-oxyacetic acid (2,4,5-T) and 2-4 dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D) with trace amounts of dioxin.
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| Agent Orange |
A chemical mixture of two synthetic herbicides, 2,4-D and 2,4,5-T. Agent Orange was used as a chemical agent to remove leaves from plants in the Vietnamese jungle during the Vietnam War. One of the chemicals in Agent Orange, 2,4,5-T has the potential to cause cancer and other harmful affects. The use of 2,4,5-T was banned by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in 1983, 2,4-D is a weed killer that is still manufactured and used in the US
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| Agent Orange |
Toxic chemical defoliant used by American military in Vietnam to deprive the enemy of food and of hiding places in the jungles, by killing all vegetation. Nicknamed
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