How To Use Nerve agent In A Sentence
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It also reacts as a stoichiometric scavenger with organophosphates, thus having the capacity to provide prophylactic protection against highly toxic chemical warfare nerve agents, such as soman and VX.
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Initial tests on the liquid chemicals found in 14 barrels at an agricultural site near Hindiyah, central Iraq, indicated the possible presence of nerve agents sarin and tabun and the blister agent lewisite.
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The explosions, which unleashed "a deadly cocktail of mustard gas and the nerve agents tabun, sarin, and VX," were part of Hussein's larger "scorched earth offensive" against Iraqi Kurds during the Iran-Iraq War.
Dan Reimold: A New Voice for Iraq, Thanks to Student Journalism
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The hope is that someday people could wear a badge that would turn a color or make a noise when an specific nerve agent is present in trace quantities.
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It's the nerve agent cyclosarin that finishes them off.
The Hunt Goes On
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All nerve agents act by inhibiting the enzyme acetylcholinesterase, which breaks down the neurotransmitter acetylcholine.
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For more than 15 years military officials sought the Food and Drug Administration's approval of a drug that combats the deadly nerve agent soman.
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Sanct Orum sez: Since 2003, coalition forces have recovered approximately 500 weapons munitions which contain degraded mustard or sarin nerve agent.
Think Progress » Santorum: We Found the WMD
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I'm above a reasonable doubt convinced this is a nerve agent that they developed, either improvised, one, or they may have developed actually sarin in some form to use.
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Although many nerve agents are called gases, they're actually liquids that can be released as an aerosol or mixed with other liquids.
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In lab experiments, SPAMS was tested against four types of materials terrorists might use - spores of a non-pathogenic strain of Bacillus anthracis (anthrax); diethyl phthalate (a nerve agent surrogate), natural cobalt powder (a surrogate for Cobalt 60 and other radioactive metals) and RDX (a high explosive).
SPAMS - a Universal Detection System for Threats
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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
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Just a few droplets of chemical nerve agents such as tabun, sarin and VX will kill within minutes if inhaled or within hours if absorbed through the skin.
Iraq: Weapons of Mass Destruction
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Chemical warheads containing cyclosarin (a nerve agent five times more deadly than sarin gas)
11/29/2005
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Nerve agents work on the nerves; they are not soluble in fats and to the liver they do not travel, especially in their half hour half life.
Fun with History
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In experiments with the new material it defended completely against Staph and E. Coli infections and within 24 hoursit restored 70% of acetylcholinesterase — a bodily enzyme that is attacked by nerve agents.
Combating Terrorism with an Environmentally Friendly Polymer | Inhabitat
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There is no evidence of which I am aware to associate exposure to organophosphorus compounds, including nerve agents, with asthma.
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This morning, the team tested a 20-gallon drum and received positive indications for sarin and tabun, two nerve agents.
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Small bomblets containing liquid sarin, a deadly nerve agent, were uncovered as recently as 2000.
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Largely because the anticholinesterase nerve agents produce a unique and striking pattern of symptoms.
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
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If there is a gas or nerve agent attack and you are not wearing a full NBC suit, a suitable respirator or immediate access to a nerve agent antidote injection, you will die.
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United States troops now carry atropine and autoinjectors in their first-aid kits to use in case of organophosphate nerve agent poisoning
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It took years for Iraq to finally admit that it had produced four tons of the deadly nerve agent, VX.
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There was a 40 per cent shortfall in nerve agent detector units, while the MoD's entire stock of 4,000 vapour detection kits, used by troops when they unmask after a suspected chemical attack, was discovered to be unserviceable.
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All nerve agents act by inhibiting the enzyme acetylcholinesterase, which breaks down the neurotransmitter acetylcholine.
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Reading from a declassified portion of a report by the National Ground Intelligence Center, a Defense Department intelligence unit, Santorum said: Since 2003, coalition forces have recovered approximately 500 weapons munitions which contain degraded mustard or sarin nerve agent.
June 2006
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Repeated like a mantra by Administration officials was the claim that Saddam Hussein possessed "26,000 liters of anthrax, 38,000 liters of botulin, one and a half tons of nerve agent VX, and 6,500 aerial chemical bombs.
Joseph A. Palermo: An Unsanitized Look at the Origins of the Iraq War
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I just want to describe, when we talk about nerve agents, we are specifically talking about a special compound known as organophosphates.
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June 21st, 2006 at 7: 42 pm unbelievable says: approximately 500 weapons munitions which contain degraded mustard or sarin nerve agent
Think Progress » Santorum: We Found the WMD
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Chemical agents appear in several types: choking agents that damage lung tissue, blood agents that cause vital organs to shut down, blister agents (also known as vesicants) that damage the skin, and - most lethal - nerve agents.
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NRL researchers have successfully tested the coating on cotton fabric and glass cloth using pesticides, including the nerve agent simulant methyl parathion.
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All nerve agents act by inhibiting the enzyme acetylcholinesterase, which breaks down the neurotransmitter acetylcholine.
