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Tabun|ˈtɑːbʊn| Also tabun. [Ger., of unkn. origin.] The name of an organophosphorus nerve gas, (C2H5O)(CN)((CH3)2N)PO.
1951Acta Physiol. Scandinavica Suppl. No. 90. 11 The writer's aim has been to synthesize tabun and some of its homologues. 1953[see Soman]. 1967New Scientist 26 Jan. 196/1 The nerve gas Sarin, known as GB, is said to be four times as toxic as the German Tabun of World War II. 1968[see Sarin]. 1978A. Melville-Ross Blindfold iv. 26 A single ‘Sarin’ or ‘Tabun’ shell of British manufacture found its way to Egypt. 1980Sci. Amer. Apr. 35/1 The first of these compounds, called tabun, was discovered in Germany in 1936 in the course of research on insecticides. |