122nd General Meeting of the KCS

Type Poster Presentation
Area Analytical Chemistry
Room No. Grand Ballroom
Time 10월 19일 (금요일) 11:00~12:30
Code ANAL.P-376
Subject VX Evaporation from Soil Surface
Authors Jun oh Lee
Agency for Defense Development, Korea
Abstract Nerve agents such as VX, Sarin(GB), and Soman(GD), have been found to be used chemical attacks in Syria. In addition, Jong-nam Kim was suspected to be killed by a lethal nerve agnet VX, the most toxic nerve agents of the known chemical agents. However, there are few database on the behavior of VX in the event of evaporation on various surface. In this work, the evaporation characteristics of VX chemical agent from soil was measured under certain enviromental condition. Experiments were performed in a laboratory-sized wind tunnel. The vapor was colleted in the form of EMPF vapor (VX's G-analog), using thermal desorption tubes which were then analyzed by gas chromatograph. We believe that these results would be helpful to build up database of VX under a variety of condition.
E-mail juno@add.re.kr