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Chemical Agent Detector (JSLSCAD)--JSLSCAD provides stationary and on-the-move detection and identification of nerve, blister, and blood agent vapors using a passive infrared detector.
While the Russian government claimed this incursion was a complete success because of its use of a nonlethal
chemical agent, fentanyl, this analysis instead reveals it as a failure with respect to the intent and effects of using this analgesic agent.
Emissions from the incinerators are routed through a state-of-the-art pollution abatement system, plus a multilayered carbon filtration system that is monitored to ensure that the
chemical agent is not released to the atmosphere.
CDC materials for emergency and health-care personnel, including a list of
chemical agents and biologic toxins and their expected clinical syndromes, are available at http:// www.bt.cdc.gov/agent/agentlistchem.asp.
Address for correspondence: Anders Tegnell, Task Force on Biological and
Chemical Agent Threats, Public Health Directorate, European Commission, L-2920 Luxembourg, Belgium; fax: +352 4301 33449; email: anders.tegnell@cec.eu.int
TMAH is a
chemical agent for use in the photographic developer used in the manufacturing of thin-film transistors for computers' liquid crystal displays and other semiconductors.
The government stands firm that there has never been a "detectable emission" of a
chemical agent into the environment from the Tooele facility.
Frances Murphy, Director of the VA Environmental Health Service, conceded in testimony in September that VA research had placed a low priority on low-level
chemical agent exposure "because military and intelligence sources had stated that U.S.
The Ciganon-coated fiber has been made possible by combining the newly developed chemical composite and Toray's coating technology to fix the
chemical agent to fibers.
In 1934, ECBC (then called the Chemical Warfare Service) released a requirement for a
chemical agent detector that would, above all, detect mustard gas.
"Following commitments to the international Chemical Weapons Convention and the federal programme on liquidation of chemical weapons in the Russian Federation, we have completely eradicated stockpiles of sarin
chemical agent," Colonel General Valery Kapashin said, Interfax reported.
The source did not say what the
chemical agent the fighters encountered was except that it was dispersed in the form of a gas.