lachrymator

NOUN
  1. a gas that makes the eyes fill with tears but does not damage them; used in dispersing crowds
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How To Use lachrymator In A Sentence

  • It puts forward the idea that Earth is a globular allium and "pain and fear" are the lachrymatory agents that provoke all the tears. Readers recommend songs about vegetables: The results
  • Glass, including lachrymatories, is mentioned as occurring sometimes, but apparently only in small quantities.
  • The captivating tear bottle tradition dates back nearly 3,000 years, when mourners were known to collect their tears in a lachrymatory and bury them with loved ones to express honor and devotion.
  • In order to counter the use of lachrymatory compounds by the enemy, compounds which penetrated the helmet insufficiently to cause serious casualties but sufficiently to hamper the individual by lachrymation, goggles were introduced in which the eyes were protected by rims of rubber sponge. The riddle of the Rhine, chemical strategy in peace and war ...
  • The lachrymatory factor from an onion activates the nerve endings of pain fibres in the top layer of the cornea, leading to increased production and release of tears.
  • This lachrymator dissolves in eye fluids and produces small amounts of irritating sulfuric acid.
  • Ancient Greeks, Romans and Hebrews would cry into small vials, or lachrymatories, that would then be sealed and buried with the dead.
  • What is more, chemical tear gas lachrymators are considered by some to have long term carcinogenic properties.
  • The student exposed to the lachrymator was not wearing eye protection.
  • Compounds that are labeled as lachrymators belong in this category.
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