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Protocol for determination of chemical warfare agent simulant movement through porous media

open access: green, 1992
Robert Jenkins   +6 more
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Benzimidazole-Based Fluorescent Films Sensors: Device-Integrated Sensing Platforms for On-Site Detection of Chemical Warfare Agents

open access: green
Song Ke   +9 more
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Chemical warfare agents

Environmental Toxicology and Pharmacology, 2008
Chemical warfare agents (CWA's) are defined as any chemical substance whose toxic properties are utilised to kill, injure or incapacitate an enemy in warfare and associated military operations. Chemical agents have been used in war since times immemorial, but their use reached a peak during World War I. During World War II only the Germans used them in
S, Chauhan   +7 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Chemical warfare agents: II. nerve agents

Annals of Emergency Medicine, 1992
Nerve agents are highly potent and rapidly acting organophosphorus compounds that irreversibly bind and inactive acetylcholinesterase. Only rarely have they been used in warfare, but their great lethality and the threat that they pose have encouraged production and stockpiling in large quantities.
F R, Sidell, J, Borak
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Chemical Warfare Agents

2015
The use of chemical warfare agents is of serious concern for the military and civilian populations. The experience of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries reveals that nerve agents and mustard gas are the main chemicals used for mass destruction. The vesicating effect of mustard gas is the main focus of this review.
Uri Wormser   +4 more
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Chemical Warfare Agents

1989
Chemical warfare agents have been defined in a report authorised by the United Nations General Assembly as ‘chemical substances, whether gaseous, liquid, or solid, which might be employed because of their direct toxic effects on man, animals and plants’.
openaire   +1 more source

[Chemical warfare agent poisoning].

Bundesgesundheitsblatt, Gesundheitsforschung, Gesundheitsschutz, 2019
Despite long-lasting international efforts to ban and disarm chemical warfare agents (CWAs), they pose an ongoing threat to the population. The reasons for this are existing remainders, inappropriately disposed of chemical munitions and availability of instructions for synthesis in open literature.
Timo, Wille   +3 more
openaire   +2 more sources

[Chemical warfare agents].

Ugeskrift for laeger, 2020
This review presents an overview of the different classes of chemical warfare agents and the toxidromes associated with these agents. An increasing terrorist threat to Denmark and the Danish armed forces operating internationally mandates increased awareness of chemical warfare agents in clinicians working with emergency and military medicine.
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Agents of chemical warfare: Sulfur mustard

Annals of Emergency Medicine, 1992
Sulfur mustard is a chemical warfare agent of historical and current interest. Favored militarily because of its ability to incapacitate rather than its ability to kill, its use results in large numbers of casualties requiring prolonged, intensive care.
J, Borak, F R, Sidell
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