More than 40 tons of methyl isocyanate spilled from a Union Carbide-owned pesticide factory in Bhopal, India, in 1984, killing more than 20, 000 people in the world’s worst chemical disaster.

1984年，位于印度博帕尔的农药厂联合碳化物公司发生事故，40多吨甲基异氰酸盐泄漏，造成两万多人丧生。 这是世界上后果最严重的化学灾难。

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We all know what the world's worst industrial disaster was: the gas leak from the Union Carbide factory in Bhopal in central India.

众所周知，发生在印度中部城市博帕尔市的天然气泄漏事件，当属世界上最严重的工业惨案。造成此案的是联合碳化物公司于当地所开办的工厂。

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Similarly, someone on a Dow Chemical computer deleted details of the company's development of birth defect-inducing Agent Orange and the continuing controversy around the Bhopal disaster, in which Union Carbide, a firm that Dow later acquired, was responsible for the death of as many as 22, 000 Indians.

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Similarly, someone on a Dow Chemical (nyse: DOW - news - people ) computer deleted details of the company's development of birth defect-inducing Agent Orange and the continuing controversy around the Bhopal disaster, in which Union Carbide, a firm that Dow later acquired, was responsible for the death of as many as 22, 000 Indians.

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