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VX is an odorless and tasteless [13] [14] chiral organophosphorous chemical with a molecular weight of 267.37 g/mol. [15] Under standard conditions it is an amber-coloured liquid with a boiling point of 298 °C (568 °F), and a freezing point of −51 °C (−60 °F). [16]
EA-2192 is an extremely toxic degradation product of the VX, a very potent nerve agent. [1] [2] It is a white solid that is very soluble and stable in water.EA-2192 is an extremely potent acetylcholinesterase inhibitor.
Previously obtained documents say a nerve agent demonstration occurred the day before the sheep deaths. [8] On March 13, 1968, an F-4 Phantom [9] fighter aircraft flew a test mission over the Dugway Proving Ground with chemical dispensers containing the nerve agent VX. One of the dispensers was not completely emptied during the test.
Officials at the Kentucky plant began disassembling about 18,000 of the rockets and draining the VX agent in July, according to a news release from plant officials. Last U.S. stockpile of deadly ...
VX was the only V-series agent that was fielded by the US as a munition, in rockets, artillery shells, airplane spray tanks, and landmines. [ 27 ] [ 29 ] Analyzing the structure of thirteen V agents, the standard composition, which makes a compound enter this group, is the absence of halides .
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QL sulfide is an isomer of VX and readily converts to it. [2] [3] The toxicity of QL sulfide is unknown but the fact that it easily isomerizes into VX makes it particularly dangerous. [citation needed] It is the intermediate in the last step of VX production and binary VX deployment. [4]
The 28-year-old VX victim, who apparently had soured on the cult, was attacked in December 1994 on the street in Osaka by two men who sprinkled the nerve agent on his neck. He chased them for about 100 yards before collapsing, dying 10 days later without ever coming out of a deep coma.