Aerosol riot control agents

Gutentag PL, Hart J, Owens EJ et al. (1960). The evaluation of CS aerosols as a riot control agent. US Army Chemical Warfare Laboratories Technical Report, CWLR 2365. Bethesda, MD, USA Army Chemical Center. 

Gutentag, P.J., Hart, J., Owens, E.J., and Punte, C.L., The evaluation of CS aerosol as a riot control agent in man. Technical Report CWLR 2365, April 1960, U.S. Army Chemical Warfare Laboratories, Army Chemical Center, 1960. 

OTHER COMMENTS used primarily as a tear-gas and riot control agent can be disseminated in burning grenades and weapon-fired projectiles, as an aerosol form the finely divided solid chemical, or from a solution of the chemical dissolved in acetone or methylene chlo-nde. 

The first and only incapacitating agent (excluding riot control agents) standardized by the army completed development in 1962. Designated BZ, 3-quinuclidinyl benzilate was a solid but was disseminated as an aerosol. The major problem with the agent for military purposes was its prolonged time of onset of symptoms. The estimate was 2 to 3 hours... 

Products and Uses A spray and aerosol tear gas used as a riot control agent and in self-defense products. 

Dinitrile 88 was eventually named for the men who surely suffered in its discovery, and was called CS gas after the initials of their last names. CS gas (which is not a gas but rather an aerosol) has gained widespread use as a tear gas and riot control agent. 

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