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File: 970107_apr96_decls13_0005.txt
Subject: DUSTY AGENTS IMPLICATIONS FOR CHEMICAL WARFARE PROTECTION
Unit: XVIII CORPS
Parent Organization: ARCENT
Box ID: BX000047
Folder Title: CHEMICAL INFORMATION
Document Number: 5
Folder Seq #: 35
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27 January 1988
DUS-ry AG@: @IC-KTIONS FOR CBEHICAL VARFARE PRMCTTON (U)
I- INTRODUCTION (U) a carrier material, virtually aiiy
agent can be disseminated Ja -'this
(C) charact@-rizin@- the dusty agent zlanner. Agents that are normally
threat to chemical protective equid@. not considered hazards on the battle-
ment is a difficult task because Of field because they have vapor pres-
the complexity of the threat. This sures that are too low or too high
report is or@arized into four major to yield effective field concentra-
sections adiressing the followin@ tions may be viable when disseminated
areas: history and properties c t.
z on a carrier. Properties of the
dusty agents, protection agaizsr carrier material such as its chemical
dusty agents, Warsaw Pact awareness composition, its microporous nature,
and capabilities, and Third World and its particle size can be tailored
awareness and capabilities. Each to a given agent to maximize ef@@ec-
section is structured in a questior.- tiveaess. Agricultural adolications
and-response for,@-t. Soeci-;ic qlrs- of the carrier method at% common-
by Natick Rase-=rc-, place, and manv pesticides are pre-
Development, and -Engineering Center pared in dust form by adsorbing t_lie
(,@EC); the Chemi@n' Research, De- active ingredient onto an izie r
velopmen.t, and Engineering Center powder.
(CRDEC); and the Ciemical Cents-- and Where did the idea for dust-7 azerits .
School are also addressed. come from? (U)
2. HISTORY A?M PROPERTIES OF DUSTY (C) The concept of using an admix-
AC-= (U@ ture of -inert solid material to @
prove the properties of chemical
What is a dustv agent? (U) agents was advanced as early as World
War 1, when the Germans mixed pumice
(U) 'Dusty agent- is a term coined with phosgene to improve its dissemi-
within tie intelligence community to nation characteristics. By the 1930s
refer to any solid agent that can be work was under-.ray in the United King-
disseminated as an aerosol. Examoles dom, France, Germa'ayt and Italy eval-
of existing chemical warfare (C',I) uating the potential of dusty agents.
agents that can be classed as dusty The Germans developed Cyclon B (hy-
agents by this definition include drogen cyanide adsorbed on silica
riot control agents, which are gel), an agent that later gained
solids. Of special interest is a notoriety for its use in the @nce@
n which tration camps. Mustard was the agent
an a'ctive substance is adsorbed onto studied the most, and in the late
an inert carrier material. By using 1930a scientists at Fortt)u Down, UK,
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