Definition of Dichloroethyl sulfide

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


Lexicographical Neighbors of Dichloroethyl Sulfide

dichlorobiphenyls
dichlorobutane
dichlorobutanes
dichlorocarbene
dichlorocarbenes
dichlorodifluoromethane
dichlorodihydrofluorescein
dichlorodiphenyldichloroethane
dichlorodiphenyldichloroethylene
dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane
dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethanes
dichloroethane
dichloroethanes
dichloroethene
dichloroethenes
dichloroethyl sulfide (current term)
dichloroethylene
dichloroethylenes
dichlorofluorescein
dichlorofluoromethane
dichlorofluoromethanes
dichloroformoxime
dichlorohydrin
dichloroindophenol
dichloroindophenols
dichloroisopropyl alcohol
dichloroisoproterenol
dichloromethane
dichloromethane dehalogenase
dichloromethanes

Literary usage of Dichloroethyl sulfide

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Chemistry of the Non-benzenoid Hydrocarbons and Their Simple Derivatives by Benjamin Talbott Brooks (1922)
"Distillation in vacuo readily yields pure pp-dichloroethyl sulfide. In Germany the chlorohydrin method of making mustard gas was employed. ..."

2. Chemical Warfare by Amos Alfred Fries, Clarence Jay West (1921)
"... which, heated with hydrochloric acid, yields dichloroethyl sulfide. Chemically, the reactions may be written as follows: CH3CH2OH = CH2 ..."

3. The New World of Science: Its Development During the War by Robert Mearns Yerkes (1920)
"One of the large tasks followed the introduction of mustard gas (dichloroethyl sulfide). The British were able to identify the new shell filling without ..."

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