To do her work, she studies the chemical makeup of the destruction layers, which sometimes include bits and pieces
of the tabuns.
Not exact matches
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.
The
tabuns could also resolve the dispute over Solomon's power and reach, says Amotz Agnon, a Hebrew University geophysicist reconstructing the history
of Earth's magnetic field.
An olive pit that happened to be cooking in a
tabun (an ancient oven) at the moment
of a violent destruction (such as an earthquake) was the best sample
of all.
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.
Undeterred by charges that it was engaging in a war crime, Iraq repeatedly shelled Iranian forces with
tabun, and later with sarin as well as a binary form
of the agent, cyclosarin.