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The blistering agent (or vesicant) sulfur mustard (HD), also known as mustard gas or Yperite, can be considered as the king of the battle gases, since it was the most effective and widely used.
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Giannakoudakis, D.A., Bandosz, T.J. (2018). Mustard Gas: The King of CWAs. In: Detoxification of Chemical Warfare Agents . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70760-0_3
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