=== Use as a weapon ===In mid-1939, the formula for the agent was passed to the chemical warfare section of the German Army Weapons Office, which ordered that it be brought into mass production for wartime use.
Spojina, ki ji je sledilo odkritje v tabun živčnega agenta, je bil imenovan v čast svojih iznajditeljev: Schrader, Ambros, Rüdiger in Van der Linde.