The soldiers said they suffer from respiratory ailments after their exposure to sodium dichromate, and they fear that a carcinogen the toxin contains, hexavalent chromium, could cause cancer later ...

Image: Sergeant Andy Tosh in Iraq. Pic: Andy Tosh Described as a "deadly poison", sodium dichromate is a known carcinogen. The ground at Qarmat Ali was covered in it, according to the former ...

The men were providing security at a water plant near Basra where sodium dichromate was discovered. They claim that its operator, Kellog Brown and Root (KBR), failed to protect them from the ...

The composition mostly used contains potassium dichromate, copper sulphate and arsenic acid in solution. Variants include sodium dichromate as a substitute for the potassium salt, and also ...