Riot control agents types

Some of the most common chemical warfare and riot control agents are presented in Figure 11. Both lightpipe and cryodeposition type spectra are presented. 

No information is available on NFPA 704 designations for riot-control agents. UN four-digit identification numbers are listed for several types of tear gas and containers. Grenades and tear gas candles are poison 6.1 and flammable solids. Tear gas devices are assigned the number 1700 devices and the remaining types of tear gas are listed as 1693. 

Article II covers definitions and criteria . The term chemical weapons is to apply to toxic, lethal, super-toxic and harmful chemicals including key precursors, except where they are intended for purposes not prohibited by the Convention as long as the types and quantities involved are consistent with such purposes . It also embraces munitions and devices specifically designed to cause death or other harm by releasing toxic chemicals. Further work remains to be done on this article to cover the position of riot control agents, chemicals which, although not toxic in themselves, could be used to increase the effect of chemical munitions, and the definitions relating to binary munitions. 

Adamsite belongs to the riot control agent family, being of vomiting agent type. The properties of Adamsite are as follows ... 

During the Vietnam War, the United States used nonlethal riot control gas in tactical situations, claiming that these harassing types of agents do not qualify as war gases prohibited by the Geneva protocols. 

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