Sentences with phrase «nerve agents»

The Twittersphere then went wild, with many commentators happily calling for all kinds of dire consequences for British Columbia and accusing B.C. Premier John Horgan, also a New Democrat, of pretty well everything short of squirting deadly nerve agents at former spies and hacking the U.S. election.

In Secretary of State for the Home Department v Sergei Skripal [2018] EWCOP 6, Mr Justice Williams made a best interests decision that blood samples could be taken by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons from Sergei and Yulia Skirpal in order that the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OCPW) could undertake their own analysis to find evidence of possible nerve agents.

The ability to consider the case details from the view of the suggested intention, (e.g. by ascertaining the optimum ways of administering toxins such as ricin or nerve agents, or the most effective ways of concealing polonium), is also a critical skill and that is highly related to the experience of operating a forensic laboratory, where the possibility of every conceivable toxin or explosive must be considered to ensure that traces are not missed.

Against sarin, none of the corpses display the severely contracted pupils (to pinpricks) characteristic of nerve agents.

Further, nerve agents are relatively persistent.

EPA mandates MTBE (earlier a pollution fighter, now an «octane booster»), necessary for converters to emit at least 3 nerve agents.

What exactly are nerve agents and what do they do?

«In this way, the fabric will be able to block chemical agents such as sulfur mustard (blister agent), GD and VX nerve agents, toxins such as staphylococcal enterotoxin and biological spores such as anthrax.»

This might also have the effect of reducing or eliminating one specific effect of certain nerve agents which is to cause longer term nerve damage, a syndrome call organophosphate induced delayed neuropathy (OPIDN).

Heavy sedation would have had the effect of stopping the nerve cells firing very rapidly and becoming damaged, which is one of the changes caused by nerve agents.

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

A wide range of organophosphorus compounds are used for their toxicity as pesticides (herbicides, insecticides, fungicides, etc.) and weaponised as nerve agents against enemy humans.

The new types of sensors are used to detect explosives and nerve agents.

The poison, U.K. investigators have revealed, is one of the Novichok, or «newcomer,» class of nerve agents the Soviet Union began developing nearly 50 years ago.

For the first time ever on a battlefield, nerve agents including sarin and tabun were unleashed by Iraqi forces.

(Nerve agents, for example, have their own toxidrome, as do blistering agents such as sulfur mustard.)

That compound, like nerve agents, is an organophosphate, and the symptoms that afflicted the «Ginger Jake» drinkers — some 30,000 documented cases — are now known as organophosphate - induced delayed neurotoxicity (OPIDN).

That is equally true for the nerve agents, which many nations still stockpile and which were used as recently as last April against civilians and rebel soldiers in Syria.

In the waning days of the war, Iraq resorted more frequently to bombarding soldiers and civilians with sulfur mustard and nerve agents.

U.S. soldiers in 1991's Gulf War carried autoinjectors filled with drugs that — in principle — would keep them breathing and protect them from seizures if Iraqi forces again unleashed nerve agents.

«We don't have reliable information on who was exposed solely to nerve agents,» says Janbazan medical researcher Batool Mousavi, because of the Iraqi practice of bombarding troops with nerve agents and mustard simultaneously or on consecutive days.

The study, the first to demonstrate zirconium MOFs as effective weapons against nerve agents, will be published March 16 by the journal Nature Materials.

That doesn't include Iraqi victims: In March 1988, Iraq's forces attacked its own citizens with mustard and nerve agents in Halabja, killing as many as 5000 and wounding 7000.

More clarity on the long - term effects of nerve agents will come from a U.S. National Toxicology Program report on sarin.

Within 24 hours they had enough chemicals to make several nerve agents and kill 50,000 people.

A separate plant will destroy other nerve agents by mixing them with a caustic solution of sodium hydroxide.

Barrass says that the commission chose to destroy the rest of Iraq's stock of nerve agents by hydrolysis, rather than incineration, for safety reasons.

«Using this technique, we will be able to get a closer look at how the enzyme interacts with pesticides and nerve agents and learn about how the bond between the two can be chemically reversed,» said Dr. Radic.

Organophosphates (OPs), a family of chemicals that includes several pesticides as well as sarin and VX nerve agents, block the activity of the enzyme acetylcholinesterase (AChE).

In the event of a chemical attack, though, he recommends staying indoors aboveground, because nerve agents are heavier than air and hence will accumulate in basements.

They tested this combination with dimethyl 4 - nitrophenyl phosphate (DMNP), a relatively harmless molecule that has similar reactivity as sarin, soman and other nerve agents.

DDVP is an organophosphate, one of a group of pesticides developed after World War II, when researchers discovered that insects» nervous systems were more sensitive to nerve agents than the human nervous system.

Recent studies have shown the sponges can also target nerve agents and may have applications in cancer therapy.

But when the polymer comes into contact with G - series nerve agents — the family of toxic chemicals that includes sarin gas — it flattens into a dense sheet that seals over the carbon nanopores underneath.

I'm not sure that the claim that conventional weapons are just as brutally effective is true, otherwise chemical and nerve agents would not be generally considered «Weapons of Mass Destruction.»

Against sarin, none of the corpses display the severely contracted pupils (to pinpricks) characteristic of nerve agents.

Further, nerve agents are relatively persistent.

Polonium and nerve agents don't grow on trees, so you immediately have to turn to state sponsorship.

Also, Russian officials claim that while the Russian chemical weapons program and everything connected to it had been verifiably destroyed under foreign supervision, other countries like the UK, Slovakia, Sweden and the Czech Republic have carried out «intense research» on nerve agents like «Novichok» until today and are likely to possess samples of these substances (Which would be of interest if «Novichok» was indeed the poison used in the attack).

The most important thing to consider, however, is the nature of the lethality and toxicity estimates for nerve agents.

However, militaries have made and used much lower - grade nerve agents, such as the very poor quality Sarin that Saddam Hussein made and used against both civilian and military targets in the Iran - Iraq war.

All of the nerve agents, old and new, operate on the same biochemical principles and cause the same mechanism of injury by provoking a «cholinergic crisis».

Nerve agents are not toxins by the technical definition.

The bottom line is that nerve agents are killers in the absence of serious medical care, but their track record as killers is actually quite poor if some medical care is given.

«Nerve agents» are chemical substances that interfere with the chemistry of the human nervous system by binding with an enzyme called acetylcholinesterase.

Some militaries made very high grade nerve agents during the Cold War, such as the USSR and the United States.

Allegations of Assad's chlorine use have been frequent during the war although, unlike nerve agents, chlorine did not produce mass casualties as seen last week.

Better known by the abbreviation ICBMs, such missiles can do exactly what their name implies: deliver a weapon, like a nuclear warhead or nerve agents, to another continent.

Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland, who hosted the event, said G7 ministers expressed deep concern about the «despicable» nerve agent attack in Britain and Russia's efforts to destabilize democracies by meddling in elections.

British authorities say the pair have been critically ill since the attack by a Soviet - designed, military - grade nerve agent called Novichok.