BLISTERING AGENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does blistering agent mean? 

• BLISTERING AGENT (noun)
  The noun BLISTERING AGENT has 1 sense:

1. a toxic war gas with sulfide based compounds that raises blisters and attacks the eyes and lungs; there is no known antidote

  Familiarity information: BLISTERING AGENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLISTERING AGENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A toxic war gas with sulfide based compounds that raises blisters and attacks the eyes and lungs; there is no known antidote

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

blistering agent; dichloroethyl sulfide; mustard agent; mustard gas; sulfur mustard

Hypernyms ("blistering agent" is a kind of...):

poison gas (a gas that is poisonous to breath or contact; used in chemical warfare)

vesicant; vesicatory (a chemical agent that causes blistering (especially mustard gas))

 Context examples 

A blistering agent primarily containing sulfur and chlorine groups that alkylates DNA to form DNA crosslinks, causing inhibition of DNA synthesis.

(Mustard Agent, NCI Thesaurus)