poison gas
noun
: a poisonous gas or a liquid or a solid giving off poisonous vapors designed (as in chemical warfare) to kill, injure, or disable by inhalation or contact
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All were written in the third person and set in the narrow time period between the Feb. 1995 Kobe quake and the shocking poison gas attacks on the Tokyo metro system the following month.
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Patrick Frater, Variety, 28 Oct. 2024
Instead, poison gas soon left a chamber full of corpses, which were lugged to a nearby crematorium and burned.
—Mitch Albom, Detroit Free Press, 28 Jan. 2024
Detect bombs, poison gas clouds, and concealed weapons from afar!
—IEEE Spectrum, 7 Mar. 2024
For wolves, the most recent settlement prevents using poison gas or fire to kill wolf pups in dens.
—Keith Ridler, Idaho Statesman, 31 Jan. 2024
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Patrick Frater, Variety, 28 Oct. 2024
Instead, poison gas soon left a chamber full of corpses, which were lugged to a nearby crematorium and burned.
—Mitch Albom, Detroit Free Press, 28 Jan. 2024
Detect bombs, poison gas clouds, and concealed weapons from afar!
—IEEE Spectrum, 7 Mar. 2024
For wolves, the most recent settlement prevents using poison gas or fire to kill wolf pups in dens.
—Keith Ridler, Idaho Statesman, 31 Jan. 2024
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“Poison gas.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/poison%20gas. Accessed 16 Nov. 2024.
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