Re:What Doesn’t Kill Me Makes Me Stronger
by deciplex on Wednesday December 10, 2014 @03:55AM
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The author seems to be confusing the US government's use of agent orange in Vietnamese jungles, with their use of paraquat on marijuana farms in Mexico in the 70s.
Re:What Doesn’t Kill Me Makes Me Stronger
by mitteldorf on Wednesday December 10, 2014 @09:21AM
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Thank you for the correction. I was relying on my memory rather than looking up the chemistry. I regret that I'll have to remove the reference to the US atrocities in Vietnam, but I suppose I'll take that up another day...
"Paraquat is the chemical name for the active ingredient in Agent Orange."
In reality, paraquat is very different from the active ingredients in Agent Orange (2,4-D and 2,4,5-T).
For instance, a molecule of paraquat contains 2 nitrogen atoms and no oxygen atoms whereas a molecule of 2,4-D or 2,4,5-T contains no nitrogen and 3 oxygen atoms.
The only similarity between them that I know of is that they are both used as herbicides.