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Preferred term

Mustard Gas  

Type

  • mesh:Descriptor

Definition

  • Severe irritant and vesicant of skin, eyes, and lungs. It may cause blindness and lethal lung edema and was formerly used as a war gas. The substance has been proposed as a cytostatic and for treatment of psoriasis. It has been listed as a known carcinogen in the Fourth Annual Report on Carcinogens (NTP-85-002, 1985) (Merck, 11th ed).

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • 505-60-2 (Mustard Gas)
  • Bis(beta-chloroethyl) Sulfide
  • Di-2-chloroethyl Sulfide
  • Dichlorodiethyl Sulfide
  • Ethane, 1,1'-thiobis(2-chloro)-
  • Mustardgas
  • Sulfur Mustard
  • T8KEC9FH9P
  • Yellow Cross Liquid
  • Yperite

In other languages

  • French

  • 505-60-2 (Mustard Gas)
  • Ethane, 1,1'-thiobis(2-chloro)-
  • T8KEC9FH9P
  • Ypérite

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JVR-N2S96FGR-D

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