nerve gas

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This has included looking at melanin as a dye for clothing that would also act as an absorbent for toxins in the environment, particularly nerve gas.

From Science Daily • Nov. 2, 2023

These surfaces can attract and bind with many simple gas molecules such as methane, hydrogen and water, as well as more complex compounds, including pollutants and nerve gas agents.

From Scientific American • Nov. 17, 2021

Chlorpyrifos is part of a class of chemicals developed as a nerve gas by Nazi Germany during World War II, but it was approved as a pesticide in the United States in 1965.

From Salon • Sep. 25, 2020

Most newspapers focus on ldevelopments in the investigation of the nerve gas attack on former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia.

From BBC • Mar. 12, 2018

Another Maryland-based company, Emergent BioSolutions, manufactures its own nerve gas antidote in Germany, which it sells to overseas U.S. government staffers under a contract with the State Department.

From Washington Post • Nov. 4, 2017