VMMC VMMC Medical Solved Paper-2013

  • question_answer
    What is Agent Orange?

    A)  A biodegradable insecticide

    B)  A weedicide containing dioxin

    C)  Colour used in fluorescent lamps

    D)  Hazardous chemical used in luminous paints

    Correct Answer: B

    Solution :

     Agent orange was the nick name given to a powerful herbicide and defoliant used by the       US military in its herbicidal warfare programme during the Vietnam War. Agent organge is a roughly 1:1 mixture of two phenoxy   herbicides   in   ester   from, 2, 4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2, 4-D) and 2,4,5-trichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2.4,5-T).


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