Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A poisonous liquid that is soluble in organic solvents, C5H11N2O2P, used as a nerve gas in chemical warfare.
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- noun organic chemistry An extremely
toxic nerve agent ; a clear, tastelessliquid , molecular formula C5H11N2O2P.
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- noun the first known nerve agent, synthesized by German chemists in 1936; a highly toxic combustible liquid that is soluble in organic solvents and is used as a nerve gas in chemical warfare
Etymologies
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Examples
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Just a few droplets of chemical nerve agents such as tabun, sarin and VX will kill within minutes if inhaled or within hours if absorbed through the skin.
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He named the chemical "tabun" and communicated his findings to Army Weapons Office in Berlin.
OUPblog 2009
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This facility has been involved in, among many other things, "an extensive effort to identify practical methods of synthesis for nerve gases (such as tabun, sarin, and VX) and other organophosphorus and fluorine compounds." (
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED 2009
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The explosions, which unleashed "a deadly cocktail of mustard gas and the nerve agents tabun, sarin, and VX," were part of Hussein's larger "scorched earth offensive" against Iraqi Kurds during the Iran-Iraq War.
Dan Reimold: A New Voice for Iraq, Thanks to Student Journalism Dan Reimold 2010
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Saddam "had had" biological and chemical weapons, including sarin, tabun, and VX; he'd used them pretty openly in the Iran-Iraq war and his suppression of the Kurdish uprising.
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These included such notorious chemical warfare agents as sarin, soman and tabun gases, all of which are still manufactured today. ...
Monsanto Investigator in Illinois Laughs They Are Doing 'Rural Cleansing' 2009
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According to declarations made by Iraq, in the period from 1981 to 1991 the chemical weapon programme produced approximately 3,850 tons of the chemical warfare agents mustard, tabun, sarin and VX, the report states.
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Just before World War II, German scientists looking for a better insecticide developed the first nerve gas, tabun, which led to deadlier agents called sarin and VX.
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Even after more than half a century on the seabed the shells 'contents -- mostly mustard gas and lewisite (both blister agents), as well as the nerve gas tabun -- may still be deadly.
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"When Saddam bombed Kurdish rebels and civilians with a lethal cocktail of mustard gas, sarin, tabun, and VX in 1988, the Reagan administration first blamed Iran, before acknowledging that the culprits were Saddam's own forces," explained reporters Christopher Dickey and Evan Thomas.
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