Sarin Definition

sârĭn
noun
A highly toxic nerve gas, C4H10FPO, which attacks the central nervous system, quickly bringing on convulsions and death.
Webster's New World

The neurotoxin O-isopropyl methylphosphonofluoridate, used as a chemical weapon.

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Origin of Sarin

  • Named after the initials of its creators, Gerhard Schrader (1903-1990), Ambros, Rüdiger and Van der Linde.

    From Wiktionary

  • German originally a code name

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Sarin Sentence Examples

  • Sarin is the nerve agent that was later used in the terrorist attack on the Tokyo underground in 1995.

  • Vodafone boss Arun Sarin has set his company a target of winning 10 million 3G phone users by March 2006.

  • Potential news reports of soldiers writhing in agony from a cloud of sarin nerve gas had spooked the president and his commanders.

  • Since it contained at least 40 percent impurities when manufactured, sarin produced at Al Muthanna had a short shelf life.

  • Another 6,454 of these rockets filled with the deadly nerve agent sarin were accounted for and destroyed by inspectors between 1992 and 1993.

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