Chemical warfare agents irritants

Diphenylbromoarsine, (C6H.5)aAsBr wh crysts, mp 54—56° a very irritant substance (Refs 1 2), similar in its properties to the Chemical Warfare Agent Diphenylchloroarsine described as DA in Vol 2 of Encycl, p C166 Refs 1) Beil 16, 845 [431] 2) Cond-... 

Lewisite is a local and pulmonary irritant, a vesicant, and a systemic poison. When ingested with food, it produces severe gastrointestinal irritation. The eyes, respiratory tract, and skin are the most likely sites of exposure when lewisite is used as a chemical warfare agent. The agent is lipophilic... 

Ballantyne, B., Riot control agents in military operations, civil disturbance control, and potential terrorist activities, with particular reference to peripheral chemosensory irritants, in Chemical Warfare Agents Toxicology and Treatment, Second Edition, Marrs, T.C., Maynard, R.L., and SideU, F.R., Eds., John Wiley Sons, Chichester, 2006a, pp. 543-612. 

Lacrimatory and irritant compounds, with a history dating from World War I, have been used in riot-control and civil disturbances, military exercises and training, and as chemical warfare agents. A listing of these chemicals and their use application is... 

C. The chemical warfare agent lewisite (dichloro [2-chlorovinyl]arsine) is a volatile vesicant liquid that causes immediate severe irritation and necrosis to the eyes, skin, and ain/vays (see also p 372). 

This information has been submitted to the Helsinki Commission [1]. Information on conventional ammunition, wrecks containing ammunition, dumping areas of chemical warfare agents as well as irritation cases by war gases along the Polish shoreline and within the Polish Economic Zone of the Baltic Sea are included in this report. 

Blister agent— A chemical warfare agent that prodnces local irritation and damage to the skin and mncons membranes, pain and injury to the eyes, reddening and blistering of the skin, and when inhaled, damage to the respiratory tract. 

Organoarsenic compounds have been used as chemical warfare agents. Chief among was Lewisite, which was used as a vesicant (blister agent) and lung irritant. The main... 

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