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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
poison gas
noun
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▪ A heavy overcast like a poison gas cloud was stationary over the battered city.
▪ At the time, however, I feared poison gas.
▪ Bombs and poison gas would rain down on undefended cities.
▪ If this emission takes place it triggers the breaking of a vial of poison gas which instantaneously kills the cat.
▪ It's a land where doom hangs upon the air like poison gas.
▪ There was fear of poison gas, in a nation where Zyklon-B was part of the collective memory.
▪ Whether it's against poison gas or pollution or radiation he can't say.
Wiktionary
poison gas

n. (context military English) Any poisonous gas used as a chemical weapon

WordNet
poison gas

n. a gas that is poisonous to breath or contact; used in chemical warfare

Wikipedia
Poison Gas (film)

Poison Gas'' (German:Giftgas'') is a 1929 German silent drama film directed by Mikhail Dubson and starring Hans Stüwe, Lissy Arna and Alfred Abel. It is based on the play Poison Gas over Berlin by Peter Martin Lampel.

The film's art direction was by August Rinaldi.

Usage examples of "poison gas".

It did not see the vats of poison gas in preparation, nor the uranium hexafluoride destined for the gas-diffusion centrifuges of the isotope separation plant.

Afterward Larry felt as if he had been through a long pillow-fight in which all the pillows had been treated with a low-grade poison gas.

If they do, they'll plaster the airstrip with the hideous poison gas of theirs.

The air inside that place was like poison gas, and I'm sure if Naseby hadn't shouted on us, we would never have woken up.

Oh, sure, they use bombs and poison gas, but they're not going to make big distribution systems.

So I am stalling and like you said you better get over here as I told them I needed assistants, but don't use your name as anything to do with you know who and you know who is poison gas in the drift.

Show him that he would have been dead by now of poison gas if these SEALS hadn't attacked the missile sites, the bombers, the destroyers, even the atomic center up north.