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- noun
mustard gas
Etymologies
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From the French ypérite.
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Examples
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(lachrymatory, sternutatory, and, above all, vesicatory, of which yperite is the most dangerous); second, asphyxiants of which the most deadly is phosgene; third, those affecting the nervous system.
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Without disparaging our own efforts, we must pay a tribute to the achievement of the French yperite producing and filling factories.
The riddle of the Rhine, chemical strategy in peace and war ... 1921
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We saw the minister visiting a factory and pinning the Legion of Honour on to the breast of a worker blinded by yperite.
The riddle of the Rhine, chemical strategy in peace and war ... 1921
MRBOGGLE commented on the word yperite
-noun
a type of posionous gas. also called sulfur mustard.
June 9, 2009