PHOSGENE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does phosgene mean? 

• PHOSGENE (noun)
  The noun PHOSGENE has 1 sense:

1. a colorless poisonous gas that smells like new-mown hay; used in chemical warfare

  Familiarity information: PHOSGENE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PHOSGENE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A colorless poisonous gas that smells like new-mown hay; used in chemical warfare

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("phosgene" is a kind of...):

gas (a fluid in the gaseous state having neither independent shape nor volume and being able to expand indefinitely)

 Context examples 

A clear, colorless, nonflammable, volatile liquid chlorinated hydrocarbon with a sweet, pleasant smell and emits highly toxic fumes of phosgene when heated to decomposition.

(Methylene Chloride, NCI Thesaurus)

When heated to decomposition, chlordane emits toxic fumes of carbon monoxide, hydrogen chloride, chlorine, and phosgene.

(Chlordane, NCI Thesaurus)

A colorless, sand-like powder that emits toxic fumes of phosgene gas, hydrochloric acid and other chlorinated compounds when heated to decomposition. b-Hexachlorocyclohexane is the beta-isomer of hexachlorocyclohexane and is used as an insecticide.

(b-Hexachlorocyclohexane, NCI Thesaurus)