nerve gas

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They showed they could dye a military uniform black with the melanin, and that it would absorb the 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

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