phosgene

NOUN
  1. a colorless poisonous gas that smells like new-mown hay; used in chemical warfare
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How To Use phosgene In A Sentence

  • For example, a chemical known as phosgene, used as a nerve gas during World War I, has long been used to make bisphenol A, the chemical building block of polycarbonate plastics. Elizabeth Grossman: Fat, Stupid, Impotent & Dangerous: The Future Without Green Chemistry
  • Anhydrous caustic soda, hydrogen gas and phosgene, all well established product areas, are being developed to produce maximum returns.
  • (lachrymatory, sternutatory, and, above all, vesicatory, of which yperite is the most dangerous); second, asphyxiants of which the most deadly is phosgene; third, those affecting the nervous system. Ferdinand Édouard Buisson - Nobel Lecture
  • However, there is conflicting evidence on the benefit of diuretics in phosgene induced pulmonary oedema.
  • Among the CW agents produced were phosgene, mustard, lewisite, hydrogen cyanide, and diphenyl cyanarsine.
  • Ethyl-dichlor-arsine was produced in homogeneously lead-lined vessels, identical with those used for diphosgene. The riddle of the Rhine, chemical strategy in peace and war ...
  • The earliest disorder is emphysema after phosgene or diphosgene inhalation.
  • The familiar Green Cross represented the slightly persistent, volatile, lethal compounds, such as phosgene and diphosgene. The riddle of the Rhine, chemical strategy in peace and war ...
  • 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.
  • A poison gas called phosgene was taken from Iraq 11 years ago. CNN Transcript Aug 31, 2007
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