Assertion: nerve agent | /r/HasProperty | deadly
Facets:
value: on contact with the skin
type: LOCATION
value: at very low doses
type: TEMPORAL
value: highly
type: DEGREE
value: at certain levels of exposure,2
type: OTHER
value: with death
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: Nerve agents are similar to insecticides and they can be deadly if people are exposed to them.
text: If so, nerve gas is so deadly and so uncontrollable that it must never be tested in the open air, or tested at all.
text: Nerve agents are lethal at certain levels of exposure,2 with death resulting from respiratory failure, depression of the central nervous system, and excessive
text: Now, after an eight-month investigation, military officials with knowledge of the mission assert to NewsStand: CNN & TIME that the gas dropped 28 years ago in Laos was nerve gas, specifically sarin, the lethal agent used in the 1995 terrorist attack in a Tokyo subway that killed a dozen people.
text: Sarin is a nerve gas, a deadly poison.
text: There are several less common nerve agents: GE, GF, VE, VG and VM Breathing a lethal dose or getting a lethal dose on the skin can kill in only a few minutes!
text: The nerve agent VX is one of the deadliest chemicals on the planet Credit:
text: A nerve agent developed by the British after World War II, VX is so deadly that it makes sarin look like laughing gas.
text: Why nerve agents are so deadly
text: However, Soman (and nerve agents in general) are much more potent and deadly than the insect nerve poisons.
text: That’s why sarin (and other nerve agents) are deadly even at very low doses – because even at low concentrations nerve agents react with A-prime very quickly.
text: In the meantime, we know that nerve gas made in the former Soviet Union, now non-existent in Russia, was military grade and deadly.
text: In the meantime, we know that nerve gas made in the former Soviet Union, now non-existent in Russia, was military grade and deadly.
text: In the meantime, we know that nerve gas made in the former Soviet Union, now non-existent in Russia, was military grade and deadly.
text: Although some of these compounds are widely used in much lower concentrations as pesticides, the nerve agents are highly lethal because they get into the body quickly through the respiratory tract, eyes, or skin.
text: The US government’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention describes VX as the most potent of all nerve agents and one that would be lethal on contact with the skin unless immediately washed off.