Sentences with phrase «in chemical warfare»

If these chemicals are bad enough to cause cancer, or to be used in chemical warfare, could they possibly be bad for your skin as well?

In it's pure form, sodium is a metal that reacts violently when exposed to water and chlorine is a poisonous green gas that has been used in chemical warfare.

«That all points to a weapon that came from a military program, used by units that understand and have training in chemical warfare operations,» Trapp says.

The large size of the colonies also provides safety in numbers, and may even allow the worms to engage in chemical warfare with potential predators through the collective production of dimethylsulphoniopropionate.

In 1964, the Federation of American Scientists condemned Operation Ranch Hand as an unwarranted experiment in chemical warfare.

«It would be good for adsorption of bases, but most gases used in chemical warfare are acidic,» he adds.

Having worked in chemical warfare defence for 27 years, the survival of Sergei and Yulia Skripal are no surprise to me.

Not exact matches

Unlike the US's strike in April 2017, the latest one did not target Syrian jets or airfields — though the earlier attack apparently had little impact, as Syrian jets took off from the damaged airfield within 24 hours and reports of chemical warfare persisted.

President Donald J Trump is now preparing some sort of strike against Syria in response to their alleged blatant use of chemical warfare.

The British military have confirmed they don't know the exact location of a site in Derry that was the subject of a chemical warfare contamination...

It says in the early stages of the Iran / Iraq conflict, Donald Rumsfeld, acting as Ronald Reagan's special envoy, gave Saddam NSA satellite images of Iran's battlefield deployment and licenses that allowed Iraq unfettered access to America's arsenal of germ and chemical warfare.

But in this Gilead, Atwood has imagined a time when our nightmares about the perils of toxic waste, radioactive fallout, chemical and biological warfare, nuclear sabotage and the building

Global warming, the ozone hole, overpopulation, starvation and malnutrition, war, unemployment, the destruction of species and the rain forests, pollution of water and air, pesticide and herbicide poisoning, errors in genetic engineering, erosion of topsoil, overfishing, anarchy and crime, the possibility of a nuclear mishap, chemical warfare or all - out nuclear war: together, or in some cases singly, these dangers threaten to «catch us unexpectedly, like a trap.»

In criticizing Syrian President Bashar al - Assad's alleged use of chemical weapons, White House press secretary Sean Spicer said today that even Adolf Hitler did not sink to that level of warfare, despite Hitler's use of gas chambers to kill millions of Jews.

Assad demonstrated he can be quite un-humanitarian, using starvation and chemical weapons in addition to traditional warfare.

The researchers mixed RHP with a protein called organophosphorus hydrolase (OPH), which degrades the toxic organophosphates found in insecticides and chemical warfare agents.

For example, one of our first big projects was the exploration of a chemical warfare agent - contaminated site in Mecklenburg - Westpommerania.

University Professor of Applied Physics Stephen Arnold and his team at the New York University Tandon School of Engineering have made a discovery that could lead to Star Trek - like biosensor devices capable of flagging the barest presence in blood of a specific virus or antibody, or protein marker for a specific cancer; or sniffing out airborne chemical warfare agents while they are still far below toxic levels.

«It's chemical warfare, but in an indirect way,» says Marcel van der Heijden, an ecologist at the Vrije University in Amsterdam.

«New laser technique may help detect chemical warfare in atmosphere.»

«Using broadly tunable laser sources rather than the fixed wavelength source used in this paper can extend this method to detection of other hydrocarbons, threat materials such as chemical warfare agents and explosives, and other biologically important substances used in healthcare and diagnostics,» said Hempler.

«These are the most toxic chemical warfare agents ever developed,» says Jonathan Newmark, a neurologist in Burke, Virginia, who has helped develop countermeasures against such weapons at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Chemical Defense (USAMRICD) in Edgewood, Maryland, and other achemical warfare agents ever developed,» says Jonathan Newmark, a neurologist in Burke, Virginia, who has helped develop countermeasures against such weapons at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Chemical Defense (USAMRICD) in Edgewood, Maryland, and other aChemical Defense (USAMRICD) in Edgewood, Maryland, and other agencies.

A new method that can detect even trace amounts of chemicals in the air could be the key to stopping chemical and biological warfare attacks.

«There's always a concern for nerve agents and unintentional effects of warfare where troops are in the way of chemical agents,» he said.

Specifically, AGEs cause increased vascular permeability, arterial stiffness, interfering with nitric oxide which blocks dilation of blood vessels, promoting the secretion of cytokines (chemical warfare in the body), oxidizing LDL, and raising oxidative stress (a form of rust in the body).

Chlorine is a toxic gas that destroys the healthy cells in our bodies on contact.Historically, chlorine gas was used as part of chemical warfare!

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Inspired by actual Cold War plots, «Air» is set in the not - so - distant future, where chemical warfare has scorched Earth, making its surface uninhabitable.

It's terrifying, in other words, even when you can't process what's going on, because of the perspective afforded by its aerial shots of Yanks fire - bombing a civilian population — an acceptable war crime in Dresden and Tokyo, lest we forget — followed hot by chemical warfare in a sequence of flight from slowly - encroaching death that pays a sort of literal homage to Romero's shambling legions.

Apokalips X tells the story of rival gangs engaged in a turf war in a post-apocalyptic world that has been destroyed by chemical warfare.

The movie is set on an Earth that has been ravaged by chemical warfare (The areas still affected are called «No Zones,» as in the response to the question, «Can I go that zone?»)

The reboot, starring Colin Farrell and Jessica Biel, is set in a futuristic world rendered almost uninhabitable by chemical warfare.

He has developed a process to detect weapons - grade nuclear material and chemical - warfare agents in shipping containers, a project that has interested the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

The U.S. Army has announced that live monkeys will be replaced with humane non-animal alternatives in future chemical warfare trainings.

2013: The college receives grant funding through the Department of Defense's Defense Threat Reduction Agency to develop nerve agent antidotes that can be used by DOD in cases of chemical warfare.

The final step in the flea egg battle... I hope you're ready to move to the dark side, to put your morals out of mind and indulge in some dodgy chemical warfare.

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In small defense areas, players can purchase machine gun nests, chemical warfare nests, or mortar stations.

In doing so, he set into motion a bizarre system of simultaneous consumption and production, one that processes the diverse materials of chemical warfare and children's play.

''... researchers have created assemblies of nanowires that show potential in applications such as armor, flame - retardant fabric, bacteria filters, oil cracking, controlled drug release, decomposition of pollutants and chemical warfare agents.»

Such negotiations have been effective in limiting bioweapons, chemical warfare and weapons in outer space, even during the height of the Cold War.

Scheduled training in courses such as weapons proficiency; self - aid buddy care training; nuclear, biological and chemical warfare defense training; and pallet buildup.

Invented novel multivariate algorithms to monitor ambient air in detecting Chemical warfare agents and Toxic industrial chemicals

Was deployed and employed in sensitive or hostile environments created by terrorism, sabotage, nuclear, chemical, biological, or conventional warfare.