Definitions for agent orange
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1. Agent Orangenoun

   a herbicide used in the Vietnam War to defoliate forest areas

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1. Agent Orangenoun

   a herbicide and defoliant used by US forces in Vietnam.

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1. agent orange

   Agent Orange is a defoliant chemical that was used by the U.S. military during the Vietnam War to remove leaves from trees and plants that were providing cover for the enemy. Named after the orange-striped barrels in which it was shipped, Agent Orange contains a harmful chemical called dioxin, which has been linked to numerous health conditions, including cancer, birth defects, rashes, and severe psychological and neurological problems.

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1. Agent Orange

   Agent Orange is the combination of the code names for Herbicide Orange and Agent LNX, one of the herbicides and defoliants used by the U.S. military as part of its chemical warfare program, Operation Ranch Hand, during the Vietnam War from 1961 to 1971. Vietnam estimates 400,000 people were killed or maimed, and 500,000 children born with birth defects as a result of its use. The Red Cross of Vietnam estimates that up to 1 million people are disabled or have health problems due to Agent Orange. A 50:50 mixture of 2,4,5-T and 2,4-D, it was manufactured for the U.S. Department of Defense primarily by Monsanto Corporation and Dow Chemical. The 2,4,5-T used to produce Agent Orange was later discovered to be contaminated with 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzodioxin, an extremely toxic dioxin compound. It was given its name from the color of the orange-striped 55 US gallon barrels in which it was shipped, and was by far the most widely used of the so-called "Rainbow Herbicides". During the Vietnam War, between 1962 and 1971, the United States military sprayed nearly 20,000,000 US gallons of material containing chemical herbicides and defoliants mixed with jet fuel in Vietnam, eastern Laos and parts of Cambodia, as part of Operation Ranch Hand. The program's goal was to defoliate forested and rural land, depriving guerrillas of cover; another goal was to induce forced draft urbanization, destroying the ability of peasants to support themselves in the countryside, and forcing them to flee to the U.S. dominated cities, thus depriving the guerrillas of their rural support and food supply.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of agent orange in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of agent orange in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of agent orange in a Sentence

1. Spike Lee:

   Agent Orange refused to repudiate the Klan, the alt-right and the Nazis, 'There's good people on both sides.' That's going to be on his gravestone.

2. Vo Thi Nham:

   Other people around here were affected by Agent Orange, too, but it was really bad for us, at least they can walk – he can't.

3. Ken Olson:

   The worst dioxin-contaminated site in Vietnam is Bien Hoa airbase, which is 30 miles north of Ho Chi Minh City, after President Nixon ordered the U.S. military to stop spraying Agent Orange in 1970, this is the site where all the Agent Orange barrels remaining in Vietnam were collected. The barrels were processed and shipped to Johnston Island in the Pacific Ocean, where they were incinerated at sea in 1977.

4. Beau Biden:

   We can and must do more to address the harms that come from hazardous exposures, which have gone unaddressed for far too long, we learned a horrible lesson after Vietnam, when the harmful effects of exposure to Agent Orange sometimes took years to manifest, and too many veterans were left unable to access the care they needed. I refuse to repeat that mistake when it comes to the veterans of our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
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2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Agent_Orange
3. ^ ChatGPT
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4. ^ Wikidata
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