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Noun: sulphur mustard
Usage: Brit, Cdn (US: sulfur mustard)
  1. A toxic war gas with sulphide based compounds that raises blisters and attacks the eyes and lungs; there is no known antidote
    - mustard gas, mustard agent, blistering agent, dichloroethyl sulfide, sulfur mustard [N. Amer]

Derived forms: sulphur mustards

Type of: poison gas, vesicant, vesicatory

Encyclopedia: Sulphur mustard

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