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From: bnrgate!bwdlh490.bnr.ca!hwt@uunet.UU.NET (Henry Troup)
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Subject: Re: GAS WARFARE
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Date: 15 Aug 90 03:23:49 GMT
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From: bnrgate!bwdlh490.bnr.ca!hwt@uunet.UU.NET (Henry Troup)

In article <1990Aug12.214511.2686@cbnews.att.com> riga@uncecs.edu (Helmuts A. Fiefs) writes:
>be deployed to neutralize whatever vapor was being wafted their way. The new 
>acronym could be NOP (neutralize, oxidize, or percipitate). Counter ARTY sends
>in a neutralizing agent into the aresol (sp) cloud headed toward our troops
>and our troops move through it spraying their individual aresols. Fluid within 

Well, part of my employement involves being on the Emergency Response Team.
Our response to chemical spills is absorb and avoid, never attempt to 
neutralize.  The basic (pun, sorry) problem is identification - is it an acid
spill? alkali? solvent?  Each requires different neutralizing techniques, plus
the reaction products.

Gases are worse, and less well known at a distance.  I agree that in 
principle, you can remote chemical identify with lasers - but I doubt that its
in the field today.


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