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n. (nerve agent English)
Usage examples of "nerve agents".
In the Vienna Hilton, Fahd asked her to buy a couple of tonnes of thionyl chloride, a `building-block' chemical used in the manufacture of many legitimate products but also an essential basic ingredient for the manufacture of mustard gas and nerve agents such as sarin.
Medical research involving the testing of nerve agents, nerve agent antidotes, psychochemicals, and irritants was often classified.
All nerve agents work the same way: They are cholinesterase inhibitors that mess up the signals your nervous system uses to make your body function.
Powell decided to use it despite the possibility, remote as it was, that the officers were just cleaning up the instruction manual because the nerve agents were gone.
I don't like your men barging in on me, and I sure as shit don't like your commandos shooting my guys up with nerve agents.
Curious, Kit opened the sack and found a pair of late twentieth-century, Desert Storm-era Israeli gas masks, capable of filtering out a variety of chemical and nerve agents.
Most of the chemicals used to kill off insects were nerve agents, simple ones that attacked and destroyed the rudimentary nervous systems in ants and beetles, but those German chemists had stumbled upon some of the deadliest chemical compounds ever formulated.
And how will we get them to Israel and America: These are nerve agents and biotoxins.
Codes on buildings indicated what was inside them, and I recognized symbols for mustard gas and nerve agents, and those for Ebola, Anthrax and Hantavirus.
The organophosphate nerve agents can be neutralized with running water in quantity-it takes out the chlorine atom, and you can burn the others-though granted, you'd best be a good bit upwind when you do it.
We had to take pills as protection against nerve agents, but that soon stopped when the rumor went around that they made you impotent.
Some boarding battles had been fought with nerve agents that did strange things.