Q.The manufacture of methyl isocynate (MIC) was started in India in 1980 to make __________ a powerful pesticide that can kill 100 types of Insects.
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Methyl isocyanate (MIC) is a highly toxic, volatile intermediate chemical used in the manufacture of carbamate pesticides. The Union Carbide plant at Bhopal began manufacturing MIC in India in 1980 as an intermediate for producing carbaryl, sold under the trade name Sevin -- a broad-spectrum carbamate insecticide capable of killing on the order of a hundred different insect pest species on crops. It was a leaked storage tank of this same MIC at the Bhopal plant that caused the catastrophic 1984 gas tragedy. The option 'Serin' given in this question is a mis-spelling/OCR variant of 'Sevin', the actual pest …
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