Sarin with Syrian rebels have used, according to Carla del Ponte, is a potent neurotoxin, odorless and invisible. The sect "Aum Supreme Truth" was used 199 for an attack in the Tokyo subway.
For three quarters of a century, it is used to kill. Sarin, whose Syrian rebels reportedly used according Carla del Ponte, a member of the Commission of Inquiry of the UN on violations of human rights in Syria - before the UN no indication in the Following qu'auncune formal evidence existed on the use of chemical weapons in Syria - is a powerful nerve gas, odorless and invisible, discovered in 1938 in Germany. In addition to its inhalation, simple contact with the skin of this organophosphate gas blocks the transmission of nerve impulses and causes death by cardiac arrest. The lethal dose is half a milligram for an adult.
Victims complain first of severe headache and have dilated pupils. Then occur convulsions, respiratory failure and coma before death. It can be used in aerosol, especially from the explosion of ammunition, but also be used to poison food or water, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta (USA).
Clothing come in contact with vapors of sarin continuously can infect others for another half-hour after exposure, according to the CDC, which states that antidotes exist. The manufacture of sarin is a complex process, but it is by chance, working on new pesticides that German IG Farben chemists have discovered in 1938. Sarin is named after its inventors: Schrader, Ambros, Rüdiger and Van der Linde.
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