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BLISTERING AGENT

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Dictionary entry overview: What does blistering agent mean?

• BLISTERING AGENT (noun)
The noun BLISTERING AGENT has 1 sense:

1. a toxic war gas with sulfide based compounds that raises blisters and attacks the eyes and lungs; there is no known antidote

Familiarity information: BLISTERING AGENT used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• BLISTERING AGENT (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A toxic war gas with sulfide based compounds that raises blisters and attacks the eyes and lungs; there is no known antidote

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

blistering agent; dichloroethyl sulfide; mustard agent; mustard gas; sulfur mustard

Hypernyms ("blistering agent" is a kind of...):

poison gas (a gas that is poisonous to breath or contact; used in chemical warfare)

vesicant; vesicatory (a chemical agent that causes blistering (especially mustard gas))

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