Word: chlorpicrin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Amherst, Texas A. & M., Stanford, Florida, Maryland)-and the courses featured gas instruction. Good Old Mustard. U.S. armed forces publicly recognize 16 chemical warfare agents. None is new. There are seven poison gases, five smoke agents for screening, and the trustworthy incendiary, thermite. The poison gases: mustard, lewisite, ethyldichlorarsine, chlorpicrin, diphosgene, phosgene and chlorine. Mustard gas is popular with high commands. It rises, colorless, from a soupy, machine-oil sort of liquid, burns a man inside...
Chemistry's most spectacular contribution to World War I, apparently not yet used in World War II-chlorine, phosgene, diphosgene, chlorpicrin, diphenylchlorarsine, mustard-were all discovered in peace time by non-military scientists...
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