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    Jacinto River Pollution

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    Maycie’s friend at daycare, Hannah, who was diagnosed at the age of five with a rare and aggressive brain tumor. Hannah died slowly. Another guy from about 6 miles away from Hannah’s grandmother (in the same neighborhood) was at the hospital when Hannah was still alive and had said that his son had just died of the same cancer, All of these families were from the same town that is located near the river, can this be a coincidence? I think not. Two months after Hannah’s death, in 2005, Texas Park and Wildlife Department officials discovered the waste pits. And therefore by 2008 it was on the superfund list. The chemicals exported or transported from place to place via the San Jacinto River were indeed carcinogens like polychlorinated dibenzodioxins and polychlorinated dibenzofurans, also known as dioxins and furans. In 2011, the pits were covered with "armored caps" to stop the dioxins from spreading. Yes, the foundation did do things to lower the chances for people to get cancer but this proves that they had some idea or hunch about the waste spilling into the river that was causing children to obtain cancer. But the things they did didn’t make the people of the town feel any safer than before when they had a theory of their home river being polluted for example one of the few precautions they took was to put up signs saying things like “no fishing.” None of these things moved the company causing the pollution out of the state or just completely shut it down because…

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    Chemical Warfare Weapons

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    face. Exposure to this chemical occurs through various ways. Most people were exposed when the herbicide was sprayed from overhead during the Vietnam War. Another way they may have come into contact was near storage sites of the herbicides. Agent Orange was tested and stored all across military bases in different American States. In addition to the United States, it was also tested and stored in other parts of the world like Thailand, Canada, India and out at sea ("Public Health: Agent…

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    The Love Canal Tragedy

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    The chemicals that were dumped were unwanted waste that served no purpose, and many of the types are unknown. However, some of the chemicals known to be present were hexachlorocyclohexane, chlorinated hydrocarbons, chlorobenzenes, benzene, chloroform, trichloroethylene, methylene chloride, benzene hexachloride, phosphorous rocks, polychlorinated biphenyls, and 1, 3, 7, 8- tetrachlorodibenzo- para-dioxin (Health Time Bomb, 1978). These chemicals had different outcomes, but resulted often in…

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    Agent Orange is a herbicide and defoliant chemical, one of the tactical use of Rainbow Herbicides. It is widely known for its use by the U.S military as part of its herbicidal warfare program, Operation Ranch Hand, during the Vietnam War from 1961 to 1971. It is a mixture of equal parts of two herbicides,trichlorophenoxyacetic acid, and dichlorophenoxyacetic acid. In addition to its damaging environmental effects, the chemical has caused major health problems for many individuals who were…

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    Agent Orange In Vietnam

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    Agent Orange Having spent 10 weeks in Vietnam, I felt a personal connection to Agent Orange as well as the effects it had on the country. This connection is what motivated my research and my desire to bring attention to the subject. Agent Orange was an herbicide used during the Vietnam War in the 1960s. It was used by the United States military who intended to gain an advantage in the war by spraying the chemical over the dense jungles of Vietnam. The military hoped that this would deprive the…

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    On January 12th 1962, the US Air force launched Operation Ranch Hand. This operation called for the use of over 19 million gallons of Agent Orange to be dumped on to the forests in Vietnam to expose the Viet Cong soldiers below. Not only did vast amounts of foliage die, but the chemical lead to birth defects, cancer, and skin rashes for soldiers and civilians who came in contact with it. Operation Ranch Hand Initiated.) Many still argue today that Agent Orange was not linked to these health…

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    Dioxin Research Paper

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    Dioxin is a shortened term for tetrachlorodibenzo-para-dioxin. The chemical formula for this deadly toxin is C4H402. Dioxin was a chemical used for an herbicide mixture called Agent Orange which was used during the Vietnam War in the years 1961-. It prevented the Northern Vietnamese from using rivers, roads, and crops for food supply. This chemical is one of the most dangerous compound that can enter the environment by surface body waters. It can cause a supply of crops to become damaged and…

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    As part of the Vietnam war, the U.S. military sprayed 12.1 gallons of Agent Orange defoliant on trees and vegetation in Vietnam. This so-called toxic chemical is mixed with other varieties of herbicides used for removing trees and dense tropical foliage that provided cover the Vietnam troops. Much of agent orange contains dioxin, which is a highly dangerous and toxic chemical, known to cause “reproductive and developmental problems, disruption of the immune system, interference with hormones and…

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    Essay On Agent Orange

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    "Here at home, the war has not ended for many of the 2.8 million serviceman and women who went to Vietnam. In addition, Vietnam claims half a million children have been born with serious birth defects, while as many as 2 million people are suffering from cancer or other illness." The U.S. used Agent Orange as a strategy to open up the Vietnam jungle so tanks and APC's could take part in operations. When the U.S. sprayed Agent Orange, they didn't realize how much it would effect U.S. soldiers,…

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    Ddt Research Paper

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    DDT (dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane), Chemical formula (C14H9Cl5), was well known as a kind of Organochlorine insecticides. It is a colorless crystalline substance. As a kind of Organochlorine insecticides, DDT kills insects by opening sodium ion channels in insects' neurons, causing the neurons to fire spontaneously. This leads to death of insects. Insects with certain mutations in their sodium channel gene may be resistant to DDT and other similar insecticides. DDT was first…

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