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Nettle agents (named
after stinging nettles) or
urticants are a
variety of
chemical warfare agents that
produce corrosive skin and
tissue injury upon...
- into a ball for defense. Like the
banded woolly bear, its
hairs are not
urticant nor
venomous and do not
typically cause irritation. The moth overwinters...
- the
blister agents,
although it is more
properly termed a
nettle agent (
urticant).
Exposure to a
weaponized blister agent can
cause a
number of life-threatening...
- tiny
crustaceans and
organic detritus drifting in the water. Even if the
urticant power of its
tentacles is
relatively low and is not felt at the
level of...
- In the spring, it thaws.
Larval setae do not
inject venom and are not
urticant; they do not
typically cause irritation, injury, inflammation, or swelling...
-
Phenyldichloroarsine (PD) 2-Chlorovinyldichloroarsine (Lewisite; L) The
urticants are
substances that
produce a
painful wheal on the skin.
These are sometimes...
-
chemical weapons, e.g.,
vesicants such as
mustard gas and Lewisite, or
urticants such as
phosgene oxime.
Chemical burns may: need no
source of heat occur...
- much
bigger than
similar ones. They can
secrete by
abdominal glands an
urticant substance.
Larvae and
adults are
predators of
small insects. GBIF Fauna...
- as
ortiguillas de mar (literally, "little sea nettles",
because it has
urticant properties before it is cooked), or
simply ortiguillas. The
whole animal...
- (4): 707–718. doi:10.1016/j.ccc.2005.06.005. PMID 16168310. EMedicine:
Urticants,
Phosgene Oxime Center for the
Study of Bioterrorism:
Phosgene Oxime Centers...
