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mustard gas

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a toxic war gas with sulfide based compounds that raises blisters and attacks the eyes and lungs; there is no known antidote

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Alkylating agents like mustard gas may also cause breakages in the DNA backbone. Source: Internet

A more deadly plot included hiding a capsule with mustard gas in flowers to cause blindness among Nazi generals inside the German High Command Headquarters. Source: Internet

Alexander had trained at the Army's Edgewood Arsenal in New Jersey, and was familiar with some of the effects of mustard gas. Source: Internet

He offered up information that a militant known as Abu Abdullah had told him that at least three times between 1997 and 2000, the now-deceased al-Qa'ida leader Mohammad Atef had sent Abu Abdullah to Iraq to seek training in poisons and mustard gas. Source: Internet

In the Wushe Incident of 1930, for example, a Seediq group was decimated by artillery and supplanted by the Taroko (Truku) tribe, which had sustained periods of bombardment from naval ships and airplanes dropping mustard gas. Source: Internet

Many were hit by mustard gas. Source: Internet

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