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... LOW-TEMPERATURE AND LOW-PRESSURE OXIDATION PROCESSES The preceding discussion of detoxification was limited to systems that accomplish this goal by breaking such specific chemical bonds as P-S and CNI, thus destroying the structure and consequently the extreme toxicity of chemical warfare agents. Although such processes destroy the military utility and major risks of agent release during continued storage, further conversion may be required to meet the irreversibility criterion of the Chemical Weapons Convention (see Chapter 1~.
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  • chemical warfare
  • warfare agents
  • chemical weapons
  • battlefield decontamination
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  • low temperatures
  • continued storage
  • oxidation processes
  • final disposal
  • agent release

  • chemical bonds
  • preceding discussion
  • specific chemical


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