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Chemical Agents

Name Color Smell
Nerve Agents
Tabun (GA) Colorless to brown Fruity
Sarin (GB) Colorless No odor
Soman (GD) Colorless Fruity; oil of camphor
VX Colorless to straw color No odor
 
Vesicants
Impure sulfur mustard (H) Pale yellow to dark brown Garlic or mustard
Distilled sulfur mustard (HD) Pale yellow to dark brown Garlic or mustard
Lewisite (L) Pure: colorless
Agent: amber to dark brown
Geranium
 
Riot Control Agents
Chlorobenzylidene Malononitrile (CS) White crystalline powder Pepper
Chloroacetophenone (CN) Liquid or solid Apple blossom
Diphenylaminearsine (DM) Yellow-green crystalline solid No odor
 
Pulmonary Agents
Chlorine (Cl2) Clear to yellow gas Bleach
Phosgene (CG) Gas Freshly-mown hay
 
Cyanides (Blood Agents)
Hydrogen Cyanide (AC) Gas Bitter almonds or peach kernels
Cyanogen Chloride Gas or liquid—colorless Pungent, biting odor
     
Incapacitating Agents
BZ White crystalline powder No odor
 
 
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