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Bhopal Gas Tragedy

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

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Bhopal gas tragedy
Considered as the worst industrial disaster, the Bhopal gas tragedy took place in the night of 2nd december 1984 at the Union Carbide India limited company. The leakage of the toxic methyl isocyanate gas in the plant caused this tragedy.

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(B) Methyl Iso-cyanate

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