MV Longchamp
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MV Longchamp is a German owned chemical tanker. It was hijacked by seven armed Somali pirates on January 29, 2009, while carrying a cargo of vinyl chloride
Vinyl chloride
Vinyl chloride is the organochloride with the formula H2C:CHCl. It is also called vinyl chloride monomer, VCM or chloroethene. This colorless compound is an important industrial chemical chiefly used to produce the polymer polyvinyl chloride . At ambient pressure and temperature, vinyl chloride...
monomer.