blister agent
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blister agent
a chemical compound or preparation that causes the formation of skin blisters, mustard gas, used in World War I, was a blister agent.
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-- Many providers have begun to treat molluscum contagiosum with cantharidin, a
blistering agent produced by a beetle, instead of with liquid nitrogen.
The main chemicals found were mustard gas and an arsenic-based
blistering agent called lewisite.
Initial tests on the 36 shells were thought to show they contained a
blistering agent similar to First World War mustard gas.
Preliminary tests showed it to be a mixture of three chemicals, including a nerve agent and
blistering agent. Phipps said the tests were 98 per cent accurate.
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