NOUN
- a toxic war gas with sulfide based compounds that raises blisters and attacks the eyes and lungs; there is no known antidote
How To Use mustard gas In A Sentence
- The chemical agent, whether it be mustard gas or nerve gas,[Sentencedict] can be absorbed by the skin.
- The primary gaseous agents used were chlorine, phosgene, a combination of the two, and mustard gas.
- The gas acts like mustard gas, and can prove lethal to those with respiratory problems.
- It was originally developed as an antidote to mustard gas in chemical warfare.
- The leaves of cabbages, mustard and some other brassicas contain toxic mustard oil, similar to the deadly mustard gas.
- Britain used mustard gas and white phosphorus incendiaries in the First World War, along with Germany and France.
- After Iraq indisputably began deploying chemical weapons against Iranian forces in 1983, the U.S. secretly provided Iraq with intelligence to "calibrate" its mustard gas attacks on Iranian troops, including satellite photos of Iranian targets. Reaping the Bounty of Imperial Arrogance
- In one village alone, a town called Halabja, his regime killed thousands of innocent men and women and children using mustard gas and nerve agents. CNN Transcript Mar 29, 2006
- The chemicals, confiscated from Hitler's Third Reich at the end of the second world war, were mustard gas, phosgene, tabun and lewisite, all of which can inflict appalling injuries.
- We know that the regime has produced thousands of tons of chemical agents, including mustard gas, sarin nerve gas, VX nerve gas.