单词 | poison gas |
释义 | poison gas (once / 17774 pages) n WORD FAMILY poison gas: poison gases USAGE EXAMPLESIt was also the first time poison gas was used on the Western front. BBC(Jan 02, 2017) Rebels denied that, and said government forces had fired poison gas on another frontline. Reuters(Oct 30, 2016) World War One, with its brutal trench fighting and poison gas attacks, was not known for its chivalry. BBC(Sep 29, 2016) n a gas that is poisonous to breath or contact; used in chemical warfare Hypo|Hyper blistering agent, dichloroethyl sulfide, mustard agent, mustard gas, sulfur mustard a toxic war gas with sulfide based compounds that raises blisters and attacks the eyes and lungs; there is no known antidote nerve agent, nerve gasa toxic gas that is inhaled or absorbed through the skin and has harmful effects on the nervous and respiratory system VX gasa highly lethal nerve agent used in chemical warfare; a toxic liquid that penetrates the skin or lungs to disrupt the nervous system and stop respiration; in combat VX gas is deployed by detonating a container over the target area and can persist in the environment up to several weeks after release organophosphate nerve agentany of a series of nerve agents containing organophosphate compounds first synthesized by German chemists in 1936; in World War II the Germans tested them in concentration camps but not on the battlefield; Iraq is alleged to have used them against Iran and against the Kurds chemical weapon chemical substances that can be delivered using munitions and dispersal devices to cause death or severe harm to people and animals and plants gasa fluid in the gaseous state having neither independent shape nor volume and being able to expand indefinitely |
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