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Chemical warfare detectors worldwide

Conference ·
OSTI ID:416160
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  1. National Ground Intelligence Center, Charlottesville, VA (United States)
The purpose of this presentation is to provide information on the principal technologies used to detect and identify chemical warfare (CW) agents. Detectors of harmful CW agents may be grouped into three major categories based on their operating principles. The three technologies involved are biochemical, ion mobility spectrometry (IMS), and flame photometry (FP). Once a chemical agent has been detected by one of these means, the presence must often be {open_quotes}confirmed{close_quotes} by a second test that is based on a different technology. Two major means of confirming the presence of a chemical agent are mass spectrometry (MS) and {open_quotes}classical{close_quotes} wet chemistry.
Research Organization:
Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (United States)
OSTI ID:
416160
Report Number(s):
ORNL/M--4315; CONF-9409370--; ON: DE95016127
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English