Question

In the textbook you came across Three Mile Island and Chernobyl disasters associated with accidental leakage of radioactive wastes. In India we had Bhopal gas tragedy. It is associated with which of the following?

• A. $CO_2$
• B. Methyl Isocyanate
• C. $CFC's$
• D. Methylcyanate

Answer 1

Answer: (B)

Methyl Isocyanate

Answer 2

In the night of December $2-3$, $1984$, gas clouds of methyl iso-cyanate $(MIC)$ are formed in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh. The cause was leakage from the pesticide plant in union carbide India limited. The gas had acute health effects as well as long term effects. The leaked acute effects lead to the death of more than $3000$ people. Acute effects included suffocation, vomiting, pulmonary oedema as well as cerebral oedema.