the name of the chemical associated with bhopal gas is mathyl Isocyanate?
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Methyl isocyanate (MIC), the smallest, most reactive, and most toxic member of the isocyanate family, was unheard of until December 2–3, 1984, when nearly 40 metric tons of this deadly chemical leaked out of the Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) pesticide plant at Bhopal within a period of 45–60 min.
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Methyl isocyanate (MIC), the smallest, most reactive, and most toxic member of the isocyanate family, was unheard of until December 2–3, 1984, when nearly 40 metric tons of this deadly chemical leaked out of the Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) pesticide plant at Bhopal within a period of 45–60 min. Bhopal became a “city of death,” in the words of India Today (December 30, 1984). The journal Nature (Opinion, 1984) wrote: “…. the anguish vividly carried round the world by the television cameras seems not to have matured into the anger, even hysteria, there would have been had the accident occurred on the edge of a European city—or in Connecticut [site of Union Carbide’s U.S. headquarters].”
Prior to the Bhopal disaster, there had been only one scientific report on MIC toxicity (Kimmerle and Eben, 1964); this led Lancet (Editorial, 1984) to comment: “In a year’s time we will have learnt a lot more about methyl isocyanate—at an appalling price.”
The Bhopal disaster evoked immense interest amongst journalists, scientists, the corporate world, lawyers, social activists, and the Indian government (Chemical and Engineering News, 1985; Varma, 1986). This chapter mainly focuses on how the disaster took place in Bhopal, as well as the physicochemical characteristics of MIC and its toxicity; how such disasters can be prevented in developing countries like India, which lack rigorous safety protocol against hazardous chemicals. Legal implications are not elaborated in this chapter.