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Nerve gas — rains (anag)
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sarin
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Sarin is a nerve agent. Sarin may also refer to: Sarin (star) , a name for the star Delta Herculis, the third brightest star in the constellation of Hercules . Sarin, Iran (disambiguation) , places in Iran Sarin, a short-lived harsh industrial/noise band ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
type of odorless nerve gas, 1945, from German, but the name is of unknown origin. Other phosphorous compounds known in Germany by the end of World War II were called Tabun , soman , Diglykol .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The neurotoxin O-isopropyl methylphosphonofluoridate, used as a chemical weapon.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a highly toxic chemical nerve agent that inhibits the activity of cholinesterase [syn: GB ]
Usage examples of sarin.
I would feel if he told me Sarin was a German gas, and had no counterpart in the Allied arsenal.
Depending on weather conditions, Sarin could lie in the streets for days, coating sidewalks, windows, grass, food, anything.
Polish Resistance managed to smuggle a sample of Sarin out of a camp in northern Germany.
And according to the reports, Soman is to Sarin as Sarin is to phosgene.
During the past forty minutes, he had sat mostly in silence, chain-smoking Lucky Strikes while the prime minister painted nightmare scenarios of the eleventh-hour appearance of Sarin and Soman on the D-day beaches.
The sample of Sarin came from a remote SS camp built solely for the purpose of manufacturing and testing nerve gases.
If our scientists succeed in copying Sarin, I believe we should launch a limited attack with our gas as soon as possible.
Soman is exponentially more toxic than Sarin, and far more persistent.
I know for a fact that the Germans already possess massive stockpiles of Tabun, and probably Sarin as well.
My point is that the British team at Porton has probably developed a facsimile of Sarin that has one or more of those flaws.
An exact chemical copy of German Sarin would be greeted with extreme suspicion.
To gamble that whatever problems exist with the British Sarin, the stuff will kill.
British Sarin works or not, it will be gone on the wind in a few hours.
But given what I know now, I believe this mission-or one like it-is probably the only chance of stopping the Nazis from using Sarin and Soman.
Thirty yards, twenty-had the British Sarin killed even a single SS man?