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Title: Chemical Weapons


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Chemical Weapons
  • Bolechová, Havelková

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Types of Chemical Weapons
  • Nerve Agents
  • Blister Agents
  • Blood Agents
  • Choking Agents
  • Incapacitating Agents

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Characterization of chemical Weapons
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Nerve Agents
  • Nerve agents attack the bodies nervous system.
  • Nerve agents causse breathing difficulties,
    convulsions, paralysis, and death.
  • Nerve agents can be inhaled or absorbed through
    the skin.
  • Symptoms of nerve agent poisoning include runny
    nose, tightness of chest, difficulty breathing,
    excessive sweating, nausea, vomiting dimness of
    vision, pinpointing of the pupils, convulsion,
    and death.

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Blister Agents
  • Blister agents attack the lungs, eyes, and skin.
  • They blister both skin and mucous membranes.

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Blood Agents
  • Blood agents interfere with the bodies ability to
    absorb oxygen.
  • The victim dies because the body tissues are
    starved of oxygen.
  • Blood agents cause headaches, vertigo, and nausea
    before death.

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Choking Agents
  • Choking agents attack the lungs, causing them to
    fill with fluid. Choking agents are detected by
    their smell and their irritancy. The victim
    suffocates by drowning in his own body fluid.
    Choking agents cause coughing, choking, tightness
    of the chest, nasea, headache, and watering of
    the eyes.

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Incapatitating Agents
  • An agent that produces temporary physiological or
    mantal effects, or both, which will render
    individuals incapable of concerted effort in the
    performance of their assigned duties

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representatives
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VX Gas
  • KIND Nerve agents
  • ANTIDOTE atropin
  • It works as a nerve agent by blocking the
    function of the enzym acetylcholinesterase

C11 H26 N O2 P S
O-Ethyl-S-2(diisopropylamino)ethyl
methylphosphonothioate
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Sarin
  • KIND nerve agent
  • ANTIDOTE atropine or other acetylcholine
  • At room temperature, sarin is a colourless,
    odourless liquid

CH3P(O)(F)OCH(CH3)2
O-Isopropyl Methylphosphonofluoridate
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Soman
  • KIND nerve agent
  • ANTIDOTE commercial name is Transant

C7H16F02P
O-Pinacolyl methylphosphonofluoridate
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Tabun
  • KIND nerve agent
  • ANTIDOTE Atropine NaF (15 mg/kg)
  • Tabun is a colourless to brown liquid.
  • Tabun was the first nerve agent discovered.

C5H11N202P
Ethyl N,N-dimethylphosphoramidocyanidate
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Yperite (Mustard Gas )
  • KIND Blister agents
  • ANTIDOTE Sodium ethanemonothiophosphonate is a
    weak antidote.
  • In pure form, it is a colorless, odorless,
    viscous liquid at room temperature and causes
    blistering of the skin.

C4H8C12S
Bis (2-chloroethyl) sulfide
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Phosgene
  • KIND Choking Agents
  • ANTIDOTE No antidote exists for phosgene

Health lung
COCl2
Carbonyl chloride
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Hydrogen cyanide
  • KIND Choking Agents
  • ANTIDOTE para-aminopropiophenone
  • Its contained in the exhaust of vehicles, in
    tobacco smoke.
  • Used by Nazi Germany during the Holocaust to kill
    millions of people.
  • The toxicity is caused by the cyanide ion.
  • Signs and Symptoms nausea, gasp (težký dech),
    cherry-red skin, death
  • Intoxication has a immediate onset (okamžitý
    nástup)

HCN
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LSD
  • KIND incapacitating
  • Incapacitating agents are not primarily intended
    to kill
  • Its causes a powerful intensification and
    alteration of senses, feelings, memories, and
    self-awareness for 6 to 14 hours.
  • LSD usually produces visual effects such as
    moving geometric patterns and brilliant colors.

D-lysergic acid diethylamide
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