Sarinn.
/ˈsɑːrɪn/ The name of an odourless organophosphorus nerve gas.
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1951 Acta Physiol. Scandinavica Suppl. No. 90. 106 (table) Isopropoxy-methyl-phosphoryl-flouride (sarin).
1967 New Scientist 26 Jan. 196/3 At Newport, Indiana, there is a plant making Sarin,..and loading it into rockets, land mines and artillery shells.
1968 Observer 16 June 9/1 By the end of the war, three of these gases—compounds of phosphorus—were known in Germany: tabun, sarin and soman.
1978 A. Melville-Ross Blindfold ii. 18 Bad stuff ‘Sarin’. Nerve gas containing fluorine and phosphorus... Absorption through the skin..means paralysis and death.
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