Sentence examples for a blister agent from inspiring English sources

A blister agent?

The chemical, named after its distinctive smell akin to mustard or horseradish, is a blister agent causing horrific burns.

That deal, brokered by Russia and the United States, led to the destruction of most of Syria's most dangerous chemical weapons, including the nerve agents Sarin and VX, and sulfur mustard, a blister agent.

American officials said then that while the plan had been for a huge explosion, it was less certain whether the key ingredient in the bomb -- sulfuric acid -- was to be used as a blister agent or as an accelerant for other explosives.

"This was the chemical weapons mecca," Joel A. Vilensky, a professor at the Indiana University School of Medicine who wrote a book about lewisite, a blister agent dubbed the "dew of death" that was among the chemicals used at the research site.

DMMP and TEP are used as nerve agent simulants, while methyl salicylate serves as a blister agent simulant.

A specially equipped vehicle detected what appeared to be a blistering agent.

More innovations followed — first the asphyxiant gas phosgene, then the vomiting gas chloropicrin, then, in the summer of 1917, mustard gas, a blistering agent that was called the king of the war gases because of its horrendous physical effects and its tendency to linger on the battlefield.

Syrian authorities denied the gassing but agreed to the elimination of the nation's chemical stockpiles, estimated at some 1,000 metric tons, including mustard gas, a blistering agent; and sarin, a nerve agent.

If the contamination can clearly be seen with the unaided eye or if irritation suggestive of a blistering agent is present at the sites of exposure, then decontamination with water (wet decontamination) should probably be performed.

Today a toxic stew of some of the most lethal weapons ever devised rests beneath the surface: Nazi mustard, a liquid blister agent.