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

Mr. Krepon wrote that one of his best moments on the Hill was helping persuade Hicks in 1974 to block the Army from spending funds on a new generation of nerve gas weapons.

From Washington Post • Jul. 19, 2022

Glan Rhonwy slate quarry, which is about the size of two football pitches, was used as a secret munitions store during World War Two and it used to store captured German nerve gas.

From BBC • Jul. 27, 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

Findings published January 2 in Science Translational Medicine describe a nanoscavenger that disables both pesticide and nerve gas OP compounds, and persists much longer than other candidates while evading by “stealth” the recipient’s immune system.

From Scientific American • Jan. 8, 2019