What does L stand for?

The four glass vials were labelled mustard gas, phosgene, Lewisite and bromobenzyl cyanide (BBC) - all used during the two World Wars.

Byline: sanjayc03 With a 2012 deadline looming for destruction of all chemical weapons stored at Deseret Chemical Depot, depot officials are proposing building a new small-scale liquid incinerator to speed up destruction of GA nerve agent and Lewisite blister agent.

Chelation (pronounced Kee la shun) therapy started during World War I when poison gas (Lewisite) affected soldiers were treated with a chelating agent Dimercapol also known as British Anti Lewisite (BAL).

The exclusion criteria for experimental and epidemiologic studies were a) no original research (reviews, editorials, nonresearch letters); b) studies performed only on people with diabetes, including case reports; c) lack of outcomes related to diabetes or glucose metabolism; d) no data on arsenic exposure; e) experiments in nonmammalian cells, or noncellular experiments; f) animal studies administering a single dose of arsenic; and g) culture cell experiments using lewisite or oxophenylarsine.

Lewisite was not used during WWI, but it became a commonly produced chemical warfare agent during the early and middle parts of the 20th century.

Lewisites such as Martin Kramer, author of Ivory Towers on Sand: The Failure of Middle Eastern Studies in America (a fierce post-9/11 attack on Bulliet) and other prominent scholars such as Robert Wood of the University of Chicago, suggested that most academic Arabists were apologists for Islamic radicalism.

The report, by consultants Aspinwall and Company, said: "Bowes Moor was used to store mustard gas, lewisite and phosgene and the smoke agents titanium tetrachloride.

Experts estimate Japan produced about 7,000 tons of gas during the war mainly mustard gas and lewisite, an arsenic-based blistering fluid and traces have been found intermittently around the country since 1973.