Recent advances in decontamination of chemical warfare agents

Defence Science Journal

Volumn 63, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 487-496

  Khan, Abdul Wadood ^a   Kotta, Sabna ^a   Ansari, Shahid Husain ^a   Ali, Javed ^a   Sharma, Rakesh Kumar ^b  

^a HAMDARD UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR MEDICINE AND ALLIED SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Chemical warfare agents; Contamination; Decontamination; Decontamination process; Nerve agents

Indexed keywords

AGENTS; CHEMICAL WARFARE; INDICATORS (CHEMICAL); TERRORISM;

CHEMICAL DECONTAMINATION; CHEMICAL MATERIALS; CHEMICAL WARFARE AGENTS; DECONTAMINATION PROCESS; HEALTH EFFECTS; LOW CONCENTRATIONS; NERVE AGENTS; TERRORIST ACTIVITIES; TOXIC CHEMICALS;

DECONTAMINATION;

EID: 84891764249     PISSN: 0011748X     EISSN: 0976464X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14429/dsj.63.2882     Document Type: Article

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