sodium cacodylate การใช้

• Agent Blue is a mixture of two arsenic-containing compounds : sodium cacodylate and cacodylic acid.
• Sodium cacodylate is frequently used as a buffering agent in the preparation and fixation of biological samples for electron microscopy.
• For example, " Agent Blue, " one of the chemicals used during the Vietnam War, is a mixture of cacodylic acid and sodium cacodylate.
• From 1965 on the Ansul Chemical Company delivered the herbicide " Phytar 560 " with the 26.4 % sodium cacodylate and 4.7 % cacodylic acid in water.
• During the Vietnam War, the United States used Agent Blue, a mixture of sodium cacodylate and its acid form, as one of the rainbow herbicides to deprive North Vietnamese soldiers of foliage cover and rice.