VX nerve agent - Periodic Table of Videos
Discussing the incredibly deadly nerve agent VX. Professors Rob Stockman and Professor Martyn Poliakoff. Extra footage:https://youtu.be/n7uJoi8DXiA See our Sarin video at: https://youtu.be/jozozH09...
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It's not actually a gas; it's quite a thick, heavy oil. It was developed in the 1950s during some pesticide research, actually, and they found some agents which were particularly toxic. I believe that nerve agents are some of the most dreadful chemicals that chemists have ever synthesized. The "V" stands for "venomous agent" so this is venomous agent "X", and there was a venomous agent "G" and various other ones. Perhaps it was the 22nd, 23rd one, wherever "X" is in the alphabet, that they made or perhaps it just sounded sinister. Fortunately, there is an organization based in the Hague, the Organization for Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, which over the last 20 or so years has succeeded ...
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It's not actually a gas; it's quite a thick, heavy oil. It was developed in the 1950s during some pesticide research, actually, and they found some agents which were particularly toxic. I believe that nerve agents are some of the most dreadful chemicals that chemists have ever synthesized. The "V" stands for "venomous agent" so this is venomous agent "X", and there was a venomous agent "G" and various other ones. Perhaps it was the 22nd, 23rd one, wherever "X" is in the alphabet, that they made or perhaps it just sounded sinister. Fortunately, there is an organization based in the Hague, the Organization for Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, which over the last 20 or so years has succeeded ...
