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blistering agent

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Noun1.blistering agentblistering agent - a toxic war gas with sulfide based compounds that raises blisters and attacks the eyes and lungs; there is no known antidote
dichloroethyl sulfide, mustard agent, mustard gas, sulfur mustard
poison gas - a gas that is poisonous to breath or contact; used in chemical warfare
vesicant, vesicatory - a chemical agent that causes blistering (especially mustard gas)


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The main chemicals found were mustard gas and an arsenic-based blistering agent called lewisite.
Japan's toxic past resurfaces by Taylor, David A. / Environmental Health Perspectives
The Pentagon said Tuesday that it would notify 20,000 veterans of the 1991 Gulf War - four times more than previously announced - that they might have been exposed to nerve gas and blistering agents when a battalion of U.
PENTAGON EXPANDS SEARCH FOR VETERANS NEAR IRAQI BLAST by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Several hundred men from a North Carolina-based Army engineer battalion were in an area where a demolition team blew up a bunker that may have contained Iraqi rockets tipped with the nerve agent sarin and a mustard blistering agent.
GULF WAR GIS POSSIBLY EXPOSED TO NERVE GAS by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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