Chemical agents defense against

SOURCES Proceedings of the Tri-Service Working Conference Defense Against Chemical Agents—Research Needs and Opportunities, Reston, Va., November 13-15,1980 The Merck Index, 9th ed., Whitehouse Station, NJ. Merck, 1976. 

MOCVD as, 22 153-154 in silicon carbide fiber manufacture, 22 534 thermally activated, 24 744-745 Chemical vapor infiltration (CVI), 26 767 ceramics and, 5 664 Chemical warfare, 5 813-840 defense against, 5 830-837 Chemical warfare agents, detection of, 22 716-717... 

Four years later, In October 1922, the CWS created a Medical Research Division to conduct research directed at providing a defense against chemical agents. No matter how exhaustively an agent was tested in animals, it was felt that its efficacy in humans also had to be studied. 

The utility of secondary plant chemicals as defensive agents against pest attack has only recently been widely accepted. However, this view Is still not universally accepted as Illustrated by Luckner s (1) recent comment ... 

BacteriologicaKor Germ) and Nuclear Warfare. Chemical warfare(CW) may be defined as the tactics and technique of using chemical agents (qv) in offensive action, or of employing defensive measures against such actions(Ref... 

C-Kampfstoffe (Chemische Kampfstoffe). Ger for Chemical Warfare Agent. A paper on defense against chemical warfare was recently published by E.Plotze in Explosivst 1963, ll5 20ff... 

Sidell, F.R., Franz, D.R. (1997). Chapter 1. Overview defense against the effects of chemical and hiological warfare agents. In Medical Aspects of Chemical and Biological Warfare (F.R. Sidell, E.T. Takafiiji, D.R. Franz, eds), pp. 1-7. Bordem Institute, Office of the Surgeon General, US Army Medical Department Center and Schoul, US Army Medical Research and Material Command, Uniformed Services University of the Health Science, Washington, Falls Church, Fort Sam Houston, Fort Detrick, Bethesda, USA. 

Ministry of Defense (1987). Medical Manual of Defence against Chemical Agents. Ministry of Defence D/Med(F S) (2)/10/l/ 1. HMSO, London. 

Smith, W.J., Dunn, M.A. (1991). Medical defense against blistering chemical warfare agents. Arch. Dermatol. 127 1207-13. 

Effective decontamination materials and procedures should be viewed by the Navy as critical parts of a risk management-based, layered defense against chemical and biological agents. 

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