blistering agent

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blistering 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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We have the blistering agent such as mustard agent that is designed to induce blisters wherever it falls.

ICRC: WHY ARE CHEMICAL WEAPONS BANNED

Security Council, also found that Islamic State had used the less toxic blistering agent sulphur mustard gas on a small scale in Syria.

Tests link Syrian government stockpile to largest sarin attack

In another incident, in September 2016, Islamic State militants fired a mortar containing sulphur mustard blistering agent from one of their positions.

The UNSC & Syria's Chemical Weapons

A recent report by a separate international fact-finding team in Syria revealed that a "nonstate actor" used the blistering agent sulfur mustard, an outlawed chemical weapon, in an attack near the northern Syrian town of Aleppo in August, likely killing an infant.