Sentences with phrase «mustard gas»

The use of mustard gas is a violation of international law.

The Syrian government has denied the reports, but another recent investigation found that government forces used toxic gas — including sulfur mustard gas — in other separate attacks.

Researchers were experimenting with the use of mustard gas to treat cancer.

He saved soldiers from mustard gas attacks through his acute sense of smell, located wounded soldiers and comforted them, and once pinned down a German soldier until American soldiers arrived on the scene.

Homer and Langley Collyer are brothers — the one blind and deeply intuitive, the other damaged into madness, or perhaps greatness, by mustard gas in the Great War.

Or maybe Sergant stubby who was a war dog who saved an entire regiment from mustard gas attacks.

Intelligence reports indicate that it has sarin and the nerve agent tabun along with traditional chemicals like mustard gas and hydrogen cyanide.

Battlefield 1 and Valiant Hearts did a good job of showcasing the horror show that was the ground war with its soul crushing trench warfare and deadly mustard gas attacks.

In 2016 a joint investigative mechanism set up by the UN and the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) blamed the Syrian government for two attacks and Isis for another involving mustard gas.

Syria is thought to possess between 500 and 1000 tonnes of mainly mustard gas and the nerve gas sarin.

When they exposed human skin to saturated mustard gas for 10 seconds, the scientists found that sulfur in the gas attaches itself to keratin, forming a new, detectable chemical bond in the skin.

Within a few months, a new incinerator in Iraq will begin burning mustard gas, which makes up most of the country's stock of chemical weapons, and tabun, a nerve agent.

Xavier Beauvois's The Guardians opens on a shot of corpses strewn about a World War I battlefield as a mist — perhaps mustard gas — gently hangs in the air.

According to a report in the International Journal of Toxicology by the Cosmetic Ingredient Review, pollutants found in various PEG compounds include ethylene oxide (used to manufacture mustard gas), 1,4 - dioxane, polycyclic aromatic compounds, and heavy metals (lead, iron, cobalt, nickel, cadmium, arsenic).

My grandfather on my dad's side, Jack Wilson, was a bicycle courier with Canadian Cyclist Battalion and served (as my dad told me), at Passchendaele and the Somme, delivering messages up and down the trenches, «going over the top,» and in the process, being hit by mustard gas twice during his military service.

I enjoyed the visions of sickly yellow - green mustard gas and streaks of red - hot machine - gun fire.

Syria is said to have one of the world's largest stockpiles of chemical weapons, including mustard gas and the nerve agent sarin.

Kurdish victims of mustard gas attacks in northern Iraq in the late 1980s have not stated claims under the Torture Victim Protection Act or the Alien Tort Statute against defendant chemical manufacturer, who allegedly sold thiodiglycol to Saddam Hussein; the...

The worst cases were caused by mustard gas, which causes blisters on the skin and lungs.

He saved his regiment from mustard gas attacks, serving alongside human soldiers in battle trenches in France for 18 months, surviving a dozen battles.

From what the history books and rare footage explares for us, it was a filthy war, fought in the mud and trenches across Europe with horses, guns, cannons and deadly mustard gas.

Mustard gas and the machine gun would become the hallmarks of a protracted war so brutal that many expected it to be history's last major conflict, a cataclysm that would make war appear too mutually destructive to merit a place in the modern world.

Even though Syrian officials agreed to destroy their massive stockpiles of chemical weapons more than a year ago, a disturbing new report from a watchdog agency found evidence that mustard gas was used as recently as August.

Iraq probably retains several tons of the highly toxic VX substance, as well as sarin nerve gas and mustard gas.

Historical reasons - WWI involved heavy use of chemical weapons, with many fatalities and many permanently injured from chlorine, mustard gas, etc..

I mean, I don't know about you, but I'd rather die relatively quickly (~ 2h, max, for the majority of fatal bullet wounds) or lose a limb than die because I'm coughing so hard my lungs shred themselves (mustard gas) or because my muscles, constantly triggered by uncontrollable electrical impulses, use up all the oxygen before my brain can (VX).

In the event that Syrian rebels topple Assad's government, his stockpiles of sarin, tabun, VX, and mustard gas would be at risk of falling into the hands of terrorist groups.

Their critics say the weapons are just the latest in a long line of lethal inventions that have increased man's brutality to man — successors to the Maxim automatic machine gun, the flame thrower, and mustard gas.

During the Second World War, between 8000 and 10 000 American soldiers were put into gas chambers and exposed to mustard gas and Lewisite, which cause blisters on human tissue.

In the name of peace, the Army will soon start incinerating millions of aging weapons filled with lethal nerve gas and mustard gas.

Toxicologist Govert van der Schans and his team at the Prins Maurits Institute of Applied Research in Rijswijk, the Netherlands, looked to other molecules altered by mustard gas.

Mustard gas itself doesn't last long in the body, so most physicians diagnose an exposure based on the metabolites of mustard gas, which end up in the urine.

Now, a team of researchers has created a rapid, skin - based diagnostic test for exposure to mustard gas, one of the nastiest chemical weapons known.

Syria possesses about 1,000 metric tons of chemicals for weapons, Walker said, with nearly all of it in the form of chemical precursors for sarin and mustard gas.

If you take the wrong fork in the road, your path will be littered with barbed wire and mustard gas and dragons and sharp knives lining the path.

Mustard gas.

The upcoming game, which is inspired by the historical events of World War I promises to give a variety of weapons from the era like bolt - action rifles, automatic and semi-automatic rifles, artillery, flamethrowers, and mustard gas.

Tossed into this mix is Danny Huston and Elena Anaya as a German general and his pet scientist, respectively, who are trying to make a mustard gas variant to get through gas masks and kill everyone.

As always, Picoult's research is thorough, wide - ranging and apparent in every paragraph and includes holocaust survivors, concentration camps, mustard gas, baking, death marches, Jewish customs, Polish ghettoes, vampire myths, plant poisons, Nazi hunters, war crimes and gas chambers.

As with any use of bleach, make sure you do not mix it with ammonia, which results in mustard gas and can kill you and your dog.

Then, without warning, it's like a mustard gas attack as a terrible aroma fills the room.

You're put in the shoes of a random soldier for a brief moment until your life is quickly snuffed out by enemy bullets, grenades, mustard gas or a flamethrower.

First the flashy: rickety tanks and biplanes, horses, bayonet charges, mustard gas and gas masks, more melee weapon options and gadgets that are unique to the period and are fun to experiment with.

Lead the revolution with an army of flamethrowing Boars, mustard gas - lobbing Skunks, and paratrooper - puking Owls.

Overview: Battlefield 1 takes the large - scale shooter series back to its old - school roots, with a World War I setting that will let you battle with bayonets, mustard gas, biplanes, tanks and horses (no, seriously).

Well, why not take a trip down memory lane to the days of mustard gas and railway guns with the Great War?

Players can make use of World War I weapons like bolt - action rifles, automatic, and semi-automatic rifles, artillery, flamethrowers, and mustard gas to kill opponents from afar.

The addition of mustard gas attacks, bayonet charges and flamethrowers may also provoke discussion.

Beyond the Post-Military Landscape of the United Kingdom Project Cleansweep takes its name from a Ministry of Defence (MoD) report called Operation Cleansweep issued in 2011, identifying sites in the UK where tens of thousands of tonnes of mustard gas, phosgene and other lethal chemicals were, since World War 1, made, processed, stored, burned and dumped in England, Wales and Scotland.

He headed the investigation of Dutch, German, and American businessmen which led to charges of selling a mustard gas precursor to Iraq, and he represented the government in coram nobis proceedings brought by former Maryland Gov. Marvin Mandel after the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark decision in McNally v. United States.