Blood agents cyanogen chloride

Williams, Kenneth E. Detailed Facts About Blood Agent Cyanogen Chloride (CK). Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD United States Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine, 1996. 

ALARA As low as reasonably achievable BAL British Anti-Lewisite CIA Central Intelligence Organization CK Cyanogen chloride (blood agent)... 

In an alternative approach, cyanide and thiocyanate can be converted to cyanogen chloride using the chlorinating agent chloramine T. Conversion can be performed in solution or in the headspace. Conversion in solution followed by headspace analysis gave a detection limit of 5 ng/ml by gas chromatography/electron capture detection (GC/ECD) (72). Conversion in the headspace above acidified blood, in a precolumn packed with chloramine T powder and attached to the injection port of the GC, gave a detection limit of 50 ng/ml (73). 

Classified as a blood agent, cyanide is usually deployed as hydrogen cyanide and cyanogen chloride. Considerable literature exists on the effects of cyanide (Meredith et al, 1993 Suzuki, 1968 Vick and Froehlich, 1985 Baskin eta/., 2009). Cyanide binds irreversibly to its target sites. In the human host it preferentially accumulates in the hypothalamus and neural tissue. Its concentration in red blood cells is much greater than in plasma. Lethal dose is of the order of 1 mg/kg or inhalation of 50 ml of hydrogen cyanide gas. 

Blood agents hydrogen cyanide, cyanogen chloride... 

Blood Agents Cyanide (Hydrogen Cyanide, Cyanogen Chloride, Sodium Cyanide, Potassium Cyanide)... 

Blood agents Also known as cyanogens, they include arsine (SA), cyanogen chloride (CK), and hydrogen chloride (AC), and are transported in the bloodstream through the body. Blood agents do not typically affect the blood but may interrupt the production of blood components and cause toxic effect at the cellular level. 

Blood agents are common industrial chemicals that have been used on the battlefield to produce casualties. Two primary types of blood agents used by the military are hydrogen cyanide (AC) and cyanogen chloride (CK). Poisonous effects of cyanide have been well known since ancient times. Cyanide was the first blood agent used as a chemical warfare agent. Cyanides are salts with the metals potassium, sodium, and calcium most commonly used to form the compounds. The term blood agent ... 

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