Chemistry

= = Agent Orange is a code name of a herbicide and defoliant which means plant killer. It is a 50-50 chemical of 2,4-D and 2,4,5-T. The dioxin was actually produced to remove unnecessary plant life and leaves where the enemy hid. But later it turned out that this caused many diseases and cancers. This substance gets mixed into the plant life, leaves and water supplies and stays their for quite a time. People get involved because they were living in an infected environment. This means that as they contact to any of these infected neither plants nor water, they also will be caught. The reason why it affected human is that the U.S government later found out this Agent Orange extremely contaminated with TCDD (a kind of dioxins). This dioxin is extremely dangerous for people’ lives. The Vietnam War has passed for almost 30 years, several million Vietnamese are still suffering physically and mentally from diseases. One of the most victims was the farmers. Because up to now, those who used to live in jungle is the most infected, plus they had lost many of their paddy-field and their fortunes. It is bad for the social because it effects to people. People life is very important in social and as they die, it definitely will cause something to it. And as if those poor people were involved in this “stupid” test, the government will have to pay a big amount of money to help these poor families. The government is still dueling with paying the money to those families when there is an economic crisis now in every country. Also that the U.S. government had invest a quite big amount of money in this test, but then it was canceled immediately after defining this problem and that wasted a lot of money. For those countries that got affected, people are doing some charities and that also causes lot money. Dioxins do not easily dissolve in water, so they tend to settle to the bottom and cling to the sediment. Dioxins last for a very long time in the environment before breaking down. In surface waters and sediments, dioxins can pass into aquatic organisms and eventually find their way into the food chain. Dioxins are easily absorbed by animals and are stored in fatty tissue. Websites of information collected [] [] [] []