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

This happened back in 2003, when the country was especially antsy over anthrax, nerve gas and other evil pathogens.

From Washington Post • Oct. 20, 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

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