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What kind of agent was mustard gas?
Mustard Gas was a blister agent.
Which blister agent causes burns and wheals?
mustard
What chemicals are blistering agents?
Mustard gas is the primary blister agent. Sulfur mustard, which is the active ingredient, contains no Mustard Seed...but it looks a little like mustard spread and smells like it, so they call it that. Very nasty stuff.
What agent causes delayed blisters and dry cough?
Mustard Gas is a blister agent where blisters do not appear right at the time of exposure usually, so are considered delayed.
How did soldiers in World War 1 get blindness or burns from mustard gas?
Mustard gas has no relation to the yellow stuff you put on a hamburger. It is a blister agent- it is highly damaging to skin, eyes, lungs, forming huge blisters and causing scarring of tissue.
What are the different types of blister agents?
Blister agents, sometimes called vesicants, are chemicals that cause severe and acute irritation to the skin and mucus membranes. There are innumerable weaponized blister agents, but probably the most well known is mustard gas which was used widely during the first World War. This was a Sulfur mustard but their are also Nitrogen mustards. Although developed during World War 1, the British blister agent Lewisite was never used in action and was rendered obsolete with the development of an antidote.
What did the chemical weapons from Syria contain?
blistering-mustard-agent(mustard gas), V.X.-nerve-agent, sarin-nerve-agent.
What type of chemical agent is indicated?
Attacks the skin and lung = Blister Agent Attacks the Airway and lung = Choking Agent Attacks the muscle of the body = Nerve Agent Attacks the oxygen carrying capacity of the body = blood Agent
'What happens to M9 paper when it comes in contact with liquid nerve agent or blister agent?
it changes color
What happens to m8 paper after it comes in contact with liquid nerve agent or blister agent?
it changes color
Vesicant blister agents include sarin lewisite phosgen oxime or nitrogen mustard?
Lewisite is a vesicant gas.
What type of chemical agent is listed if pink or red dots are on M8 paper?
h-type (blister agent)
