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Tabun chemical properties

In the closing days of the war in Europe, the USSR captured a manufacturing facility in eastern Germany and moved the facility and personnel to Russia to continue production (Koelle, 1981). In western Germany, the British and the Americans captured a stockpile of munitions containing an unknown chemical agent. Their initial lack of awareness of the properties of this agent, tabun, was indicated in an early British report ... [Pg.223]

Molecular models of the nerve agents tabun, sarin, soman, and VX are shown in Figure 5-3. Table 5-3 summarizes the chemical, physical, environmental and biological properties of these compounds. [Pg.139]

Tabun is the easiest of the nerve agents to produce, essentially by a two to three stage process from industrially available chemicals. " It has less favourable physicochemieal properties than the other weaponised nerve agents its vapour pressure is quite low (bp 248 °C) and it is the least stable towards moisture in the environment. Added to this, its lower inhalation toxicity compared with sarin and soman, and its much lower percutaneous toxicity compared with VX, it is regarded as being obsolete as a military agent. Its ease of synthesis might make it attraetive to proliferators with a limited chemical industry or to terrorists. [Pg.17]

An alternative to classifying by physiological effects or persistency is to use an intrinsic property of the toxic chemical that will not vary, but is relative to the use of that chemical on that battlefield or by terrorists. The prime example of such a property is volatility—the tendency of a solid or liquid to pass into the gaseous state. In this scheme, a chemical might be classified as high volatility (such as phosgene), intermediate volatility (such as sarin, soman, and tabun), and low volatility (such as sulfur mustard, VX, and most toxins). [Pg.56]


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