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incapacitating agent
(redirected from Knockout gas)

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An agent that produces temporary physiological or mental effects, or both, which will render individuals incapable of concerted effort in the performance of their assigned duties.


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A gang pumped knockout gas through the air-conditioning then stole pounds 30,000 of goods.
Death ultimately did strike the 18 Black Widows and30--odd other rebels when Russian special forces pumped a mysterious knockout gas into the theatre during a controversial raid to end the two-day standoff.
The Moscow theatre hostage-taking ended after an unidentified knockout gas was pumped into the building, but the gas was responsible for almost all of the 129 hostage deaths.
 
 
 
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