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The trail links Rocky Flats with the Rocky Mountain Arsenal, land outside of downtown Denver that also was cleaned up after contamination from the manufacture of chemical warfare agents, including mustard gas, for World War II.
—Gary Stoller, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2024
Chemical weapons, which contain phosgene, arsenic and sulfur mustard (also known as mustard gas), are too lethal to handle, probably ever, admits Guldin.
—Paul Hockenos, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Sep. 2024
Derived from a relative of mustard gas, the drug is known to be highly toxic to a variety of blood cells; in fact, doctors had long used it to kill the diseased bone marrow in patients before transplant.
—Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 18 Apr. 2024
In 24 hours more than 600 people in the area reported symptoms of mustard gas poisoning.
—Andrea Gawrylewski, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2020
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1917, in the meaning defined above
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“Mustard gas.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mustard%20gas. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.
Kids Definition
mustard gas
noun
: a poisonous gas used in war that has strongly irritating and especially blistering effects
Medical Definition
mustard gas
noun
: an irritant oily liquid C4H8Cl2S used especially as a chemical weapon that causes blistering, attacks the eyes and lungs, and is a systemic poison
called also dichlorethyl sulfide, sulfur mustard
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