Introduction

History
  Korea
  Vietnam

Riot Control Agents
  CS
  DM

Incendiaries
  White Phosphorous
  Napalm

Operation Ranch Hand
  
Mission Overview
  
Defoliants Used
    
 Components
     Agent Orange

   
    
Dioxin
  
   Agent White
      Agent Blue

Ecology

Ambiguities of Vietnam
  Yellow Rain
  Operation Tailwind
  CW Test On Sailors
  Dissenting Warriors

References

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Agent Blue

Sodium Cacodylate was used in Agent Blue, as well as cacodylic acid. Because this is an arsenic containing compound, severe health affects arise when humans are exposed to cacodylate. Severe arsenic poisoning causes headache, dizziness, vomiting, profuse and watery diarrhea, followed by dehydration, electrolyte imbalance, gradual fall in blood pressure, stupor, convulsions, general paralysis, and possible death within 3 to 14 days (25)

Sodium Cacodylate
oMW: 138.00
oC2H6AsNaO2
o Solubility: 2000 mg/L at 25°C
oMelting Point: 192-198 °C
oLD50 (rats): 644 to 830 mg/kg
oHealth Effects:

 

 

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