Agent Reference Common Name Looks/State Dispersion Odour Symptoms
GA TABUN Colourless or Brown Liquid Liquid/Gas Fruity Pinpoint pupils, runny nose, drooling, coughing, GB SARIN Colourless Liquid Liquid/Gas Odourless tightness in chest, muscle twitching, nausea GD SOMAN Colourless Liquid Liquid/Gas Camphor (Mothballs) convulsions, coma, death. V Series Nerve Agents GF CYCLOSARIN Colourless Liquid Liquid/Gas Sweet & Musty `Novichok Series´ Nerve Substance 33, A230, A232, VX VX Colourless Liquid Liquid/Gas Odourless A234 etc., agents that were designed NOT to be VE (VX) Colourless Liquid Liquid/Gas Odourless detected by conventional Detection, Identification VG AMITON or TETRAM Colourless Liquid Liquid/Gas Odourless and Monitoring (DIM) equipment. VM EDEMO Colourless Liquid Liquid/Gas Odourless
CG PHOSGENE Colourless Gas Yellow Gas Strong smell of Wood/Hay Coughing, eye, nose, throat Liquid irritation shortness of breath, frothy secretions CHEMICAL DP DIPHOSGENE Colourless Liquid Vapour/Liquid Strong smell of Wood a feeling of suffocating or drowning, death CL CHLORINE Yellow/Green Gas Gas Bleach
AMMONIA/AZANE Colourless Gas Liquid/Gas Strong Urine smell Choking WARFARE DISULPHUR DECAFLUORIDE Colourless Gas Liquid/Gas PERFLUOROISOBUTENE Colourless Gas Liquid/Gas
ACROLEIN/PROPENAL Colourless Liquid Acrid smell of Burned Fat
AGENTS DIPHENYLCYANOARSINE
CX PHOSGENE OXIME Solid Aerosol Unpleasant Watery and itchy eyes, runny nose, hoarseness ED ETHYLDICLOROARSINE Liquid Liquid/Aerosol Fruity or hacking cough, initial redness of skin, followed The following descriptions include odour. HD DISTILLED MUSTARD Colourless or Yellow Liquid Liquid/Gas Mustard/Garlic by blisters. HL MUSTARD-LEWISITE Liquid Liquid Mustard/Garlic Mustard has NO immediate DO NOT and NEVER intentionally smell/sniff effect. unknown chemicals. The descriptions are HN-1 NITROGEN MUSTARD ONE Oily Colourless Liquid Liquid/Gas Fish Lewisite leads to immediate pain. Blister HN-2 NITROGEN MUSTARD TWO Oily Colourless Liquid Liquid/Gas Fish recorded in case you become aware of a similar Skin effect varies with odour in your working environment indicating a HN-3 NITROGEN MUSTARD THREE Oily Colourless Liquid Liquid/Gas Fish & Soap agent. contaminate, or if wearing PPE a breach in your L LEWISITE Colourless or Amber Liquid Liquid Flowers MD METHYL-DICHLORO- Liquid Liquid/Aerosol Fruity respirator. Move upwind and away from the ARSNINE source as quickly as possible. PD PHENYL-DICHLORO-ARSINE Liquid Liquid/Aerosol None
AC HYDROGEN-CYANIDE Colourless Liquid or Gas Gas Almonds Heavy breathing or breathlessness, A description of the odour is included to provide Blood CK CYANOGEN-CHLORIDE Colourless Liquid or Gas Gas Fish or Almonds unconsciousness convulsions, headache, early indication warning only. SA ARSINE Gas Gas Garlic death.
BZ BZ, BUZZ or AGENT 15 White Crystals Gas Odourless Hallucinations; agitation, Incapacitant/ dilated pupils. This is NOT a definitive list of Chemical Warfare SN PHENCYCLIDINE (PCP) White Crystals Gas Odourless Hallucinogen Agents and is created to provide a basic guide. K LSD Liquid Gas Odourless